company . for other uses of the name treehouse see treehouse disambiguation . treehouse island inc. type private founded march 22 2011 ; 5 years ago 2011 03 22 1 headquarters orlando florida u.s. portland oregon u.s. area served worldwide founder s ryan carson alan johnson industry internet services technology education employees 110 website treehouse users 171 000 2 available in english current status active treehouse is an online technology school that offers beginner to advanced courses in web design web development mobile development and game development taught by a team of expert teachers . 3 its courses are aimed at beginners looking to learn coding skills for a career in the tech industry . the treehouse learning program includes videos combined with interactive quizzes and code challenges . treehouse tracks are guided curricula composed of courses that train students in large topic areas . treehouse organizations is designed to assist businesses organizations schools and community programs in technology training . companies including simple and livingsocial currently use treehouse to recruit new employees based on their progress and achievements on treehouse . 4 in april 2012 treehouse raised 4.75 m in funding . 5 in april 2013 treehouse closed a us 7 million series b fundraising round led by social capital and kaplan bringing its total raised capital to 12.6 million . 6 in may 2016 treehouse launched the techdegree program a learning program focused on helping people prepare for a tech career . contents 1 history 2 the techdegree program 3 culture 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit ryan carson in 2013 treehouse was founded by ryan carson a computer science graduate from colorado state university . 7 after graduating carson worked for fingal a design agency in london before moving to bath united kingdom . in 2004 ryan carson and his wife gillian carson founded carsonified a company built towards training web designers and developers based in bath united kingdom . 8 in addition to training designers and developers carsonified also created web applications and hosted web industry events conferences and workshops . in 2008 carsonified sold its file sharing application dropsend to the florida based company webminds . 9 in 2011 ryan carson sold carsonified which is now named future insights and started working on his new project treehouse . ryan carson founded treehouse in 2011 a project that emerged from carson s previous company carsonified and its video tutorial service think vitamin membership . 10 carson decided to redesign and rebrand the service as treehouse because the name reflects the wonder of learning as a child . 11 treehouse s mission is to offer affordable technology education to users globally . 12 in 2011 treehouse opened their first office in orlando florida in 2012 they opened their second office and moved treehouse hq to portland oregon . 13 in july 2013 treehouse released its first ipad app for accessing treehouse s content . 14 treehouse also released an android application in 2014 and added a course for apple s swift programming language . 15 carson is currently the active ceo of treehouse . 12 the techdegree program edit in may 2016 treehouse announced the launch of the techdegree program . the techdegree program is a guided learning program that is designed to help students prepare for entry level development jobs . the techdegree program is available for six competencies android front end web development full stack javascript ios java and python . 16 culture edit up until 2015 treehouse had a four day work week and no managers 17 and practiced open allocation . 18 19 in august 2015 the company introduced middle management 20 and temporarily stopped practicing the four day work weeks to help its growing size with about 100 employees . in early 2016 they resumed the four day work week . originally co founder ryan carson established the short work week in an effort to prevent burnout and reward employees by limiting the number of hours they worked . 21 see also edit lynda.com e learning theory technology integration references edit teamtreehouse.com whois dns & domain info domaintools . whois . retrieved 2016 08 20 . treehouse site . retrieved 17 february 2015 . treehouse . treehouse island inc. retrieved 8 january 2014 . tsotsis alexia . web design and development community treehouse wants to teach you how to code get you a job . techcrunch . retrieved 28 april 2013 . tsotis alexia . web dev education startup treehouse raises 4.75 m from chamath and greylock techcrunch . techcrunch.com . retrieved september 8 2014 . empson rip . treehouse lands 7m from kaplan social capital to help you learn to code . techcrunch . retrieved 5 june 2013 . vp profiles ryan carson . vb profiles . retrieved 17 february 2016 . startup grind hosted ryan carson treehouse . startup grind . retrieved 17 february 2016 . carsonified sells dropsend web app to boost its coffers 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mike rogoway 19 december 2013 . portland startup treehouse eliminates the boss tells workers to manage themselves . retrieved 8 january 2014 . feintzeig rachel . radical idea at the office middle managers . wsj.com . wall street journal . retrieved 24 october 2015 . fisher anne . this startup thrives on a four day workweek . cnn money . retrieved 23 april 2014 . external links edit treehouse website treehouse on twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title treehouse company & oldid 742547614 categories computer programmingeducational websitesinternet properties established in 2011virtual learning environments navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links 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