Gagan Biyani
Gagan Biyani is a serial entrepreneur and education technology founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the founder and CEO of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a for-profit residential program for young builders in San Francisco backed by Andreessen Horowitz. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Maven, a live cohort-based online learning platform, and co-founded Udemy, one of the world's largest online course marketplaces.
“We're building a new school for the AI era, and that means redesigning everything.”
Source→“The profit motive forces us to deliver to the customer. And our job at the end of the day is to make sure that young people who attend the institution go off and do great things because that creates the brand, that creates the flywheel, that allows us to continue to stay in business.”
Source→“Two, is one of the most just impressive entrepreneurs in the entire space over the past decade plus.”
Source→“It's young people who are constantly feeling the itch to go and produce things.”
“Maven — Biyani's current company, an online education platform teaching people to become 'super ICs' (individual contributors) in the AI era rather than middle managers.”
Source→“We're, we're now promoting my VP product to be CEO of that company.”
Source→“my friends at the leading AI companies are all working as hard as ever... they're all hiring.”
Source→“You don't hear about [the ozone layer] anymore... we fixed the ozone layer... we have fixed so many of the world's problems because we make a big deal about it.”
Source→“Udemy — Biyani's earlier company, referenced as the origin of his relationship with Shopify's Archie.”
Source→“Then I started Sprig, which raised a ton of money and didn't work out.”
Source→“I remember being on Sand Hill Road where Marco and Jonathan at Thumbtack and Logan and John, who eventually started Lyft, were going around.”
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