Udo Gollub is the CEO of 17 Minute Languages, a company that develops and sells language courses in 79 languages (for people in 20 different native languages) and has 40 employees.
He started his first online business in 1997, selling digital products.
In 2002, he started building language courses, first in Germany (
Sprachenlernen24), then in other countries under the brand
17 Minute Languages. Now, in 2024, his company has 79 different languages that you can learn from 20 different native languages.