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$250 Million Founder: What I Did Wrong & How To BUILD BIG | Ankur Nagpal Mar 19, 2025 · 20 mentions

• ▶ 1:46 Codie Sanchez Without further ado, I give you Ankur Nagpal, the CEO and founder of Cary and former founder of Teachable.
• ▶ 3:08 Ankur Nagpal So my last company, by the end, like Teachable, it became very hard to manage because, I mean, it was also around COVID and just the entire company, people forgot that we were there to make money and grow a business.
• ▶ 5:43 Codie Sanchez Well, what's interesting is your last Teachable sold for two hundred and fifty million dollars. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:05 Ankur Nagpal Uh, at Teachable, I mean, it was just the exit year, because when you're running a startup, I'll tell you my entire salary history, like six months of nothing, then 70,000 dollars a year. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 22:50 Codie Sanchez Okay, well, the other thing I wanted to talk to you about was, why did you choose, I can't remember your origin story, like, what was the pain point that made you choose to build Teachable?
• ▶ 23:34 Ankur Nagpal I taught in-person classes at General Assembly, and built the first version of Teachable as a side project. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:00 Ankur Nagpal Like, again, when we started Teachable, the company was called Fedora, which is an awful name, domain name, usefedora.com. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 51:23 Ankur Nagpal When we moved, when I started Teachable in New York in
• ▶ 52:36 Ankur Nagpal But on the other hand, we saw our biggest sign up in revenue days at Teachable because this was the opposite sort of trend where our business, like we sold the company at about twenty five million in ARR 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:05:27 Ankur Nagpal Like, it was kind of demoralizing and teachable.