Opinion
Jain: Most Tier-3 Engineering Professors Teach Because They Failed Software Interviews
“Even in engineering education, if you talk about Indian engineering education, especially the tier three engineering colleges. So mostly your teachers or then those are the people, those typically could not get any job in a software company because software co…”
Insight
Online Education Captures Higher-Intent Students Than Offline Engineering Colleges
“Because when you're teaching in an engineering college, when you're teaching offline, there are many students who are actually not interested. But when you're teaching online, those who search something, they only come to your platform. Those who are seriously…”
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GeeksforGeeks Is the Second Most Mentioned Coding Platform After Stack Overflow
“After stack overflow, I think is the most mentioned Platform on social media and everywhere.”
Insight
Founders Should Put Core Business on Autopilot Before Launching New Lines
“If you are an entrepreneur make sure that you first bring your business into an autopilot mode, set up the processes, set up the rule book. And once you feel like you're in without your intervention, it's running, then you can probably think of other businesse…”
Disclosure
GeeksforGeeks Generates 70% of Revenue From Ads and 30% From Courses
“Around 70% of the revenue comes from the ad business and around 30% comes from the courses business.”
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Jain: Replicating GeeksforGeeks' Content Engine Would Take Competitors Years
“And if someone even tries to replicate that machine to generate the content is going to take many years because we have learned over 13 years. To build that machine of content generation.”
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Sandeep Jain Built GeeksforGeeks for Five Years With Zero Revenue
“So almost five years, I was just working on this project and I was not making even a single penny.”
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GeeksforGeeks Reached ₹1.5 Lakh Monthly Revenue Before Jain Quit Teaching
“As I said, so while I was doing the teaching job the revenue by the end of 5.5 years became much more than 70,000.
It was almost double my salary.
It was like 1.4 level one to 1.4 or five like it was around that monthly income.”
Disclosure
GeeksforGeeks Offers Paid Internships to Students Who Write Two Articles
“Students can come and write articles on their topics. And once they write two articles, They get an offer letter from us and then they get work from home internship certificate and whatever they publish on the stories, they get paid for everything.”
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Course Revenue Will Surpass Ad Revenue Within Two Years, Predicts Jain
“And I strongly feel like within a year or two, it'll cross our ad revenue.”
Disclosure
Bootstrapped GeeksforGeeks Hires Mostly Young Talent Over Expensive Experienced Laterals
“Since we are not a funded company, we do not have very highly paid people, very highly experienced people that we can get from other companies. So most of the people in the company are very, very young”
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Most GeeksforGeeks Senior Leaders Are Sandeep Jain's Former B.Tech Students
“Most of the people who are at the senior level in the company, they were my students. They joined from that time. And the person who is leading the tech, the person who is leading the business development, they were my student at some point. And the person who…”
Disclosure
GeeksforGeeks Plans to Expand Educational Content Generation Beyond Coding
“And now I am looking forward to use this machine and improve this machine so that we can generate the content in every domain.”
Disclosure
Jain: Initial Post-B.Tech Goal Was Any 5,000 Rupees Per Month Job
“My first target was to get any job, even if it is 5000 rupees, because I had to make some money after B tech. So I applied for BPO's. I applied for coaching centers.”
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GeeksforGeeks Early Web Traffic Doubled Every Two to Three Months
“It was, you know, doubling every two, three months at that time.”
