JP Beaudry grew up in rural Quebec hacking together cars and studying engineering. After an eye-opening internship in Japan, he came to the US as the DotCom bubble was booming, discovering in the process that timing is everything in careers. We discuss his love/hate relationship with automobiles, changing development velocity, and his experience bringing online learning to the masses at edX.  

• https://open.edx.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Pony#Canadian-spec_(Non-ECC_LHD)
• Sherbrooke Universite
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• edX’s list of currently available programs and classes