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Ankur Nagpal

12 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2025 by Ankur Nagpal · across every show →

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Mar 19, 2025 neutral
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Nagpal: Teachable's $250M acquisition was half cash, half stock
“I mean, half of it was cash, half of it was stock.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 12:00 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 positive
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Nagpal: Teachable reached $40K-$50K monthly sales within nine months
“The first month we processed maybe like 3000 dollars in course sales. But every single month after that, we process a little bit more until eight or nine months in, we were doing 40, 50,000 dollars a month in course sales across, I want to say 15, 20 creators.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 23:56 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025
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Nagpal: Facebook apps scaled to $50,000 daily, making $1M before age 21
“It started my freshman summer, and at the end of my freshman summer, I was making, like, 20 dollars a day, but all the way scaled to 50 grand a day, and making a million bucks before I was 21.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 6:56 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
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Nagpal: Teachable doubled ARR from $25M to $50M three months post-sale
“Our business, like we sold the company at about twenty five million in ARR and we doubled to 50,000,003 months later.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 52:36 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Nagpal: Response probability remains constant through seven cold outreach emails
“I forgot the data, but like, I think with the first seven emails you send or something, the chance of getting a response are the same, which means you should send seven emails, because if you have a five percent chance, you'll have a five percent chance even t…”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 20:05 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025
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Nagpal: College Facebook apps reached 4–5M daily users, beating Yelp and LinkedIn
“Like at our peak, we had more traffic than LinkedIn, Yelp, about the same as New York Times. We had like, I think like four or five million teenagers basically using it every single day.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 7:30 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 positive
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Nagpal: Mark Cuban replied every time Nagpal emailed him as a teenager
“Even when I was 1819 years old, every time I emailed Mark Cuban, he replied.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 21:18 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 negative
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Nagpal: Almost never hires MBAs, doing so only despite their degree
“Like, I'm, I almost never hire MBAs. And once in a while, if they do, it's despite their MBA.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 54:38 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025
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Nagpal: Raised a $70M venture fund via Twitter DMs
“When I fundraised for my fund, I raised about seventy million dollars on Twitter DMs with, I want to say like maybe under five actual meetings.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 14:23 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025
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Nagpal: Knows multi-hundred-millionaires who are sad they aren't billionaires
“I know people who have made hundreds of millions of dollars, where sad they're not a billionaire.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 42:50 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Nagpal: 18-to-20-year-olds hold a golden window for high-profile networking
“If you're. 1819, or 20, you're in a golden window where a lot more people will be willing to meet with you because of your promise and your potential.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 26:43 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Nagpal: Took zero management fees and funded 25% of his fund
“What I did with my fund is I took zero management fees, which was absurd for a fund of that size and a quarter of all the capital was mine.”
Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 16:09 $250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal
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