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Biography
Mattan Griffel is an entrepreneur, educator and CEO and co-founder of One Month. Griffel is also a professor at Columbia Business School, a partner at GrowHack and teaches at General Assembly, an educational institution for entrepreneurs.
Early life and career
Griffel was born in Ramat HaSharon, Israel where he lived for two years before emigrating to America with his parents, first to Pasadena, California and then to New Jersey. Griffel graduated from New York University summa cum laude with degrees in Finance and Philosophy, and worked as a marketing coordinator before starting One Month.
Griffel co-founded One Month, an online education platform, through Y Combinator in 2013. The first class offered was a month long and taught coding with Ruby on Rails. The company raised $1.9 million in second seed round funding in 2015.
In 2015, Griffel was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list for education.