Business
Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin: co-founders of the Code Academy
Monday, May 7, 2012
Mike McGee (l) and Neal Sales-Griffin (r). PHOTO/code academy
Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin, two young African American entrepreneurs decided to launch a tech start-up.
Both are Northwestern graduates, Sales-Griffin, 24, a business major and McGee, 23, a graphic design and political science major, knew nothing about software development before they founded their tech startup. But they attempted to learn code themselves over a 12-month period, scouring the web for classes, materials, and any resources they could find.
So they both set out to create “the best learning environment,” founding Code Academy, which opened its doors in August 2011.