Rued Riis wasn’t planning on building a career teaching online courses. The video animator and professional marketer just wanted to use Vyond’s online animation software to deliver marketing messages in simple, entertaining ways. The 30-year-old from Copenhagen, Denmark, discovered Vyond as a student worker at an accounting software firm. He quickly saw the benefits of animated video for marketing and spent several years improving his animation and video production skills. Meet Rued, working from home, creating new courses, solo-entrepreneuring it. After founding his own video animation agency and working as the CMO and CPO of two startups, he decided to use his knowledge and experience to help small business owners leverage animated videos to improve their marketing and training. That’s when he created his first online course, aptly titled: Go Beyond Vyond: How to Make Animated Videos that Work . It became a best-seller, with more than 11,000 students enrolled, and changed his ...