Munjal: Unacademy had one million monthly YouTube views before incorporating
Gaurav Munjal · @unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal · Feb 18, 2020 · at 9:23
Unacademy co-founder Gaurav Munjal explains why he decided to pursue Unacademy full-time in late 2015 alongside Roman Saini.
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“By this time, Unacademy was already doing a million video views per month, because Unacademy had was a YouTube channel that I started in college, and then Roman and I were contributing videos to that YouTube channel, and we decided to make Unacademy into a platform.”
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