Chris Haroun Net Worth 2026: Online MBA Professor and Author

No reputable publisher has put a figure on Chris Haroun's net worth, so we have removed the unsourced $22.5 million number that used to lead this page. The closest thing to a public financial data point comes from CNBC, which reported in 2021 that Haroun had made millions of dollars from his courses on Udemy, led by "An Entire MBA in 1 Course." Before teaching he spent years in consulting, investment banking, hedge funds and venture capital, including at Goldman Sachs and Citadel.

What is Chris Haroun's net worth?

There is no estimate from Forbes, Bloomberg, Celebrity Net Worth or a major newspaper. His company, Haroun Education Ventures, is private, and he has not disclosed his total wealth. The documented pieces are a finance career from 2000 to 2016, a run as a hedge fund manager and venture investor, and an online education business that CNBC says has earned him millions. That is enough to say he is wealthy, but not enough to put a responsible number on it.

Chris Haroun's yearly income and course earnings

The old page said he earned $750,000 a year as an author. There was no source, and books are not his main business, so that figure is gone. Here is what reputable outlets and his own profiles report:

• Udemy courses. His Udemy profile listed 1,778,146 learners and about 301,500 reviews in September 2026. Across platforms he says he has sold more than 2 million courses in 12 languages in 196 countries.
• The flagship course. CNBC reported in April 2021 that "An Entire MBA in 1 Course" had a typical list price of $199 and had been downloaded more than 370,000 times, producing steady passive income.
• The Haroun MBA Degree Program. His own online business program, described as 300-plus hours of content, is sold through his company.
• Coaching and advising. He now also markets himself as an executive coach and CEO advisor.
• Book. He wrote 101 Crucial Lessons They Don't Teach You in Business School.

CNBC also noted that he had pulled about 15 courses that did not sell, a reminder that the income comes from a few hits rather than every product.

Professional life

His Forbes Business Council profile lays out a finance career before teaching:

On Udemy he says he has raised or managed more than $1 billion over his career and that one of his investment firms backed Facebook several years before its IPO. He has taught evening classes at Hult International School of Business, advised Stanford Graduate School of Business students on venture capital and startups, and is a McGill University Dobson Fellow for mentoring student startups.

The move into online teaching started with a single class. CNBC reported that in January 2016 he taught an "MBA in a day" session for 9- to 17-year-olds through the LEMO Foundation, a nonprofit for under-resourced student athletes, and was struck by how engaged the children were. He then recorded it for Udemy. Fast Company described the original class as aimed at students in East Palo Alto.

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Charity: Project Magu in Rwanda

Fast Company reported in 2023 that Vital Nsengiyumva, an engineer from the Rwandan village of Magu, took Haroun's short MBA course on Udemy in 2019. The two met that year at a conference in Berlin, and when Nsengiyumva said he wanted to build a school in his home village, Haroun backed the idea. Forbes Business Council lists Project Magu as a 2019 partnership between Haroun, Nsengiyumva and Andrew Haroun. Haroun has also served on the boards of the LEMO Foundation, where he was chief academic officer, and Providing Opportunity for Women.

Early life and family

Haroun was born in Canada. Inc. reported that his father, a Coptic Christian from Egypt, left the country, settled in Canada and built a business that grew to 300 employees, and that his mother was white. Haroun has said that witnessing prejudice against his parents as a couple shaped his belief in education. The invented account on the old page, which described him as an only child who won high school writing contests, had no source and has been removed.

Chris Haroun's wife

He is married to Christine, and they have three sons, Andrew, Matthew and Dylan, according to his Udemy biography. The family lives in Hillsborough, California.

Education

He studied at McGill University, majoring in management information systems and international business and graduating in 1994, and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2000. The old page's other claims about his school years were unsourced.

Age and height

His date of birth, height and weight have not been published. The earlier figures (40 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, 75 kg) had no source and conflict with a 1994 college graduation, so they have been removed.

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Compared with other online instructors

Haroun is one of a small group of instructors whose courses reach millions of people. Coding teacher Colt Steele has a similar Udemy audience of about 2 million learners. For neither has a reputable outlet published a net worth.