If she hadn't had these credits, it would have been a very different story! Perhaps then she wouldnt have had any advertising budget...
I don't think this article is as strong as the interviews you've done in the past. When you are interviewing you help remove some of the bias and really get to all the details, it makes it real and raw, where as users writing their own article tend do pick their positioning more carefully.
I think it is that 'realness' that makes IH different than all the noise out their on entrepreneurship blogs.
I hope if you go this route you provide more guidance to the writers to help make it more real.
(Also, it's less interesting when the IH venture already had an established market and following, I want to hear about the journey!)
That's almost exactly how I got started too. Had a successful Kickstarter campaign for a Docker course a few years ago and then continued moving forward.
The only difference is I went to Udemy from the beginning but I'm slowly transitioning away from them and onto my own platform (Thinkific at the moment).
