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What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 47:12 Kushal Bhagia Uh, I think he's on the board of some seven or 10 unicorns, first cry, swiggy, uh, an academy on this, the whole list of them and globally.
Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- ▶ 1:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Even after selling your last company, I've learned to an academy, you didn't move to the US thinking that, hey, I build a SaaS company in India and want a larger scale.
Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
- ▶ 0:08 Ashish Fafaria Unacademy, Spinny, Purple, and Slice.
- ▶ 1:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Some of the VC's most popular investments include Unacademy, Dunzo, and Stage.
- ▶ 59:10 Ashish Fafaria This is an academy.
- ▶ 1:10:11 Ashish Fafaria Unacademy, Spinny, Purple, and Slice.
HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show
- ▶ 11:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Founders like Vidya Atrev, Mishu, Gaurav Munjal, Unacademy,
BeerBiceps Gave Me the BEST Advice: Ishan Sharma's Unpopular Side on Neon Show
- ▶ 0:47 Ishan Sharma So I was like, you know, an academy, I don't want to get paid.
- ▶ 16:07 Ishan Sharma I think there was this one time when I went to Kota to shoot a video about an academy's new offline center, right? 4 times in the scene
From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- ▶ 47:10 Aprameya Radhakrishna I was, uh, early invested in Unacademy.
The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 3:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And then when, you know, Bayju's and an academy of the world started scaling, and then when COVID happened, right, EdTech again became the poster child of growth.
Learning from our journey of building 100x Entrepreneur (now Neon)
- ▶ 6:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'll always remember is with Gaurav Munjal from Unacademy. 4 times in the scene
5 Most Important Decisions of Our Lives | Journey of Siddhartha & Nansi, Founders, 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 5:53 unnamed speaker He is with the product he's building, the habits he has set up, and the culture he has built, and the marketing initiatives, and the vision he has for an academy.
Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
- ▶ 6:07 Varun Mayya So first year I went to this person called this friend of mine called Abhinav Chikara, who ended up becoming the head of design of an academy, right?
- ▶ 30:03 Varun Mayya I feel like we will end up winning because we are the white labeled version or the SAS version of, let's say, uh, platforms that exist today, a Maven or, uh, you know, unacademy in a sense.
- ▶ 39:27 Varun Mayya Uh, we hired senior guys from an academy.
How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- ▶ 21:54 Ishan Sharma So I was working with an academy as a coding instructor, right? 3 times in the scene
The Story Behind Building 100x Entrepreneur Ft. Siddhartha Ahluwalia & Nansi Mishra
- ▶ 16:06 Nansi Mishra And, uh, he told me that he's going to record podcast of Gaurav Munjal, who is the founder of Unacademy.
- ▶ 31:34 Nansi Mishra And, uh, why he's building an academy, what impact he's creating, and he wants to create in future.
How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- ▶ 27:27 Anirudh Singla Uh, Akash who looks at our text category was, uh, key unacademy leaders.
Building a Generational Company That's Changing the Way Legal Services are Delivered
- ▶ 16:14 Shashank Bijapur So, uh, we have, uh, we had WattFix, ChargeP, uh, you know, Unacademy, Cred, uh, PhonePay, all of them.
Creating TIMELESS MARKETING CAMPAIGNS & Building An ICONIC BRAND! ft. Karan Shroff@unacademy
- ▶ 2:46 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Karan Shroff, Partner and Chief Marketing Officer, Unacademy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And how did you and Anacademy decided, you know, to, to partner in 2019? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:46 Karan Shroff I'm not saying this because I'm in an academy right now, but I think let's crack it, you know, uh, for what it's become, uh, uh, you know, at the time we were trying to build a brand, an ethos of sorts of, you know, and, and, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So he, when he sold, sold flat.io and was just about to start an academy with him, which I was not startup, uh, was part of the gang. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Karan Shroff Uh, one comes from product, uh, two from, from what the learners keep telling us on how they love an Academy time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Not only educators and learners, but everyone loves marketing initiatives and campaigns of an academy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You know, you, Gaurav and everyone in Academy, uh, use the terminology that, you know, let's build an iconic brand.
- ▶ 27:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, I have seen in an academy office, one of your leadership principles or the tennis that you follow, uh, that, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia How is the marketing, uh, for an academy in the last couple of years to support, you know, the dynamic need of the business and the dynamic need of the learner.
How @JoshTalksLive went viral in India? ft. Co-founder, Supriya Paul
- ▶ 22:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia By Jews, unacademy of the world, without of the world, and people, when they know that you are in a great tech business, right?
Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- ▶ 24:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Yesterday, uh, nobody used to care about EdTech before, Baidu and Academy and Topper.
- ▶ 41:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia As we were speaking, you know, the regret is much more higher on the, the side of the VCs because, uh, Gaurav Manjal of an academy pitched to 50 investors while they were raising their seed to series A, and only two or three of them said…
Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- ▶ 16:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, I would want to ask is EdTech too much today because of the opportunity and are there space for any other billion dollar companies, you know, because Bayu and Unacademy and Topper, have they taken the shelf entirely?
Mohan Lakhamraju, Founder, Great Learning on building $100 Million ARR EdTech Business in India
- ▶ 34:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, that, that thing has been transformed by sitting at your home and platforms like an academy are able to bring that experience.
- ▶ 45:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Anacademy is, is, has reached 1.5 million dollar.
Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- ▶ 22:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You were the first investors in Unacademy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Unacademy has done a wonderful work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:55 Sajith Pai Baijuice is of course slightly more of a learning product, um, but, uh, now it's getting into preparation as well, but all the others which have done really well, uh, uh, I mean in the, like, like whether it's an academy, Vedantu, Topper,…
Pratik Poddar, Nexus Ventures on the Growth & Monetization of EdTech Startups in India
- ▶ 1:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia The rounds in media which are circulating are Postman has raised one fifty million dollars at two billion dollar valuation, and Unacademy is in talks to raise at 1.2 billion dollar valuation.
- ▶ 7:50 Pratik Poddar We're the first investors in an academy, which started as a live learning platform for test prep and later expanded into k-twelve, um, and, and other categories.
- ▶ 9:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, uh, uh, as you shared, you know, uh, an academy is one of the leading test prep and, uh, right now entering into k-twelve segments in India. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So as you, as you shared, you know, uh, earlier in the podcast, like, uh, an academy is doing a hundred crores in monthly revenue.
- ▶ 19:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia They, they were not replacing anything in the industry and Academy was replacing the, uh, offline IIT coaching, test coaching, and now K-to-L, but, uh, White Hat is a new concept.
Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital
- ▶ 44:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Till now, there have been only a handful of companies like Baiju, Unacademy, Topper, Vedantu that have been, uh, able to scale 2 times in the scene
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 12:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, like an academy, it's like a demonetization for a tech company, especially like an academy work, right place, right time and building on a, on a fierce, fiercely till this moment. 5 times in the scene
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 0:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Gaurav Munjal, founder of Unacademy, the largest learning platform, and right now their focus is on test prep.
- ▶ 0:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Before an academy, before flat.io.
- ▶ 9:12 Gaurav Munjal Uh, so, and then somewhere around October, September, 2015, I quit flat chat, and, um, we decided to do, take an academy full time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:13 Gaurav Munjal But when I started Unacademy, um, I had no idea what market I was building for. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:48 Gaurav Munjal Leaders at an academy spend considerable time studying those strategies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:41 Gaurav Munjal So, so first thing is that, um, I think when Roman quit an academy, um, and because he had built a brand on our YouTube channel, and he quit that, and he became one of the largest online educators in the country. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:02 Gaurav Munjal Second, when we launched our educator app, nobody was building a platform. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:15 Gaurav Munjal And, um, um, and apart from them, that when we launched our plus subscription earlier this year, uh, which, so if, if the early in 2019, if, if this episode is going to come out in 2019, uh, otherwise earlier last year, um, and then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Was this the number one pillar to bring such great advisors and investors in an academy? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:29 Gaurav Munjal As of now, an academy is, will, it, it's not technically replacing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:36 Gaurav Munjal I'll tell you the plus subscription and why it works. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What has been the process that from day one you have been able to get the best educators which you differentiate yourselves in on the academy platform? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:31 Gaurav Munjal Because most of them are worried about, hey, what will an academy do next? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Let's talk about distribution at an academy that you have been able to crack very successfully. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You started from this year, Feb, and today you have more than 70,000 paid subscribers for an academy plus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:45 Gaurav Munjal No, it couldn't have gone wrong because, uh, um, I think one of the things about us as founders and leaders at an academy is that, um, grit is there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:33 Gaurav Munjal It's just that I need to build a layer of people in an academy who carry forward that obsession. 3 times in the scene
Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 12:26 Sameer Brij Verma Um, so those are some of the enterprise companies on the India consumption side, uh, have invested into, uh, on the edtech side, uh, Unacademy, uh, which is India's largest test prep platform.
- ▶ 17:16 Sameer Brij Verma Uh, fund four, I would definitely say, uh, you know, all on Academy, Zorro, and Jumbotail, and Hasura, and, you know, we're all, all strong companies, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia There's an interesting story that when you went to an Academy office for signing the term sheet, you didn't come back until the term sheet was signed.
- ▶ 23:16 Sameer Brij Verma And when we invested in the company, there were companies only doing UPSC, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Sameer Brij Verma In fact, the 30th of Jan was when we launched the Unacademy plus version of it, which is the live streaming kind of thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:40 Sameer Brij Verma We've got, of course, on academies and Zolos and TotalMint is doing exceptionally well, uh, uh, you know, and, and, and a bunch of very other, very, very interesting companies, uh, which, which, which are not publicly known, but, but, but…
The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- ▶ 9:27 Sarbvir Singh Among those, I would say the ones which are notable and have raised or have done well, one is of course Unacademy which was our first check, which we exited that position. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 unnamed speaker So you have been invested in an academy and traditionally, as you said, people in India were not willing to spend for subscription based services. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Sir, can you share examples of companies like Unacademy when the founders were pitching to you, what spark did you see? 2 times in the scene
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 53:08 Karthik Reddy And currently in the portfolio, it's Grey Orange, Unacademy, Servify, uh, Turtle Mint.