Masa Kato

Background

About Masa Kato

Founder and CEO at Progate https://progate.com/about (EN), https://prog-8.com/about(JP) Started in Japan, Progate has over 2 million learners from 100+ countries. Our vision is to "Empower everyone to open new doors through programming". We offer an online platform for beginners to learn programming. It offers a fully equipped coding environment to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, and more- Before I really learned how to code, I was just a student who couldn't do anything. I was taking computer science classes, but I didn’t think programming was fun and I only felt frustrated. But then I started learning programming with my friends, and as we gained experience through trial and error, we were eventually able to land freelance jobs. That feeling of achievement and being totally absorbed in the joy of creating something is one that I will never forget. Programming gave me the power to “create”, which led to my confidence, and greatly widened the opportunities in my life. I wanted to share this feeling with as many people as possible and started Progate with the mission, “Be the gate to the exciting world of programming. Be the path to an independent coder."