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==Business model==
Through a [[subscription business model]], Pluralsight provides online professional tech training to individual and business customers.<ref name="Karol1">{{cite web |author=Karol, Gabrielle |title=Pluralsight Raises $135M to Help Grow Enterprise Customer Base - Fox Small Business Center |url=http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/technology-web/2014/08/27/pluralsight-raises-135m-to-help-grow-enterprise-customer-base/ |publisher=[[Fox Business Network]]}}</ref> The company pays its course authors a [[Royalties|royalty]], based on how often their videos are viewed. In 2013, author Scott Allen became the first of its authors to earn over $1 million in royalties from his courses.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pando.com/2013/07/08/lessons-from-the-first-millionaire-online-teacher/ | title=Lessons from the first millionaire online teacher | publisher=PandoDaily | date=2013-07-08 | author=Lacy, Sarah}}</ref>
 
The company also offers a complete platform for its enterprise users.
The company also offers a complete [[Software as a service|SaaS]] platform for its enterprise users.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-vendors/how-pluralsights-saas-training-platform-plans-close-skills-gap-3660159/|title=How Pluralsight's SaaS Training Platform Plans To Close The Skills Gap|last=Carey|first=Scott|work=ComputerworldUK|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en-GB}}</ref>
 
Pluralsight was reportedly working with roughly 40% of [[Fortune 500]] companies in 2017<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cio.com/article/3227831/it-skills-training/how-doing-good-can-help-cios-do-better.html|title=How doing good can help CIOs do better|last=Bonasio|first=Alice|work=CIO|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en}}</ref> and with 70% by 2019. That year, business-to-business sales accounted for 86% of the company's billings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertdefrancesco/2019/03/29/pluralsight-deploys-machine-learning-to-tackle-the-24-billion-tech-training-industry/|title=Pluralsight Deploys Machine Learning To Tackle The $24 Billion Tech Training Industry|last=DeFrancesco|first=Robert|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref>
 
In 2017, the company announced its participation in the Pledge 1% movement—a global initiative to encourage [[Corporate social responsibility|corporate philanthropy]] by asking companies to commit 1% of their efforts towards nonprofit organizations. The company launched Pluralsight One in September 2017, with the goal of improving technology education in the nonprofit sector.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900029967/activist-and-nobel-laureate-malala-yousafzai-keynotes-pluralsight-conference.html|title=World's youngest Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai tells Utahns how to 'eradicate terror'|last=Raymond|first=Art|date=2018-08-30|website=DeseretNews.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref>
 
==Venture funding==