SaaS IT UP 🎙️

As Udemy goes for IPO, we spoke with the Co-founder of Udemy, Gagan Biyani, who is currently building the next big thing in the ed-tech space, Maven. 

In our candid conversations, we spoke with Gagan about the future of education as he shared his worldview around the CBC space and his passion for the medium of audio.

Andrew Warner is the founder of Mixergy. He is one of the finest business podcasters who has more than 2000+ interviews to his credit. This month, he is launching his book Stop Asking Questions which is being loved by the upcoming podcasters worldwide. 

In our candid discussions, he talks about the art of conversations and his worldview around the podcasting space. 

Wes Kao is the co-founder of Maven.com. In this episode, she shares her spiky point of view on the future of education. In our candid discussions, she talks about her worldview on CBCs (Cohort-Based Courses). 

Arthur Nobel is a B2B SaaS investor at Knight Capital. In our Season finale, we speak with Arthur Nobel who shares his experience from both sides of the coin, of being a former entrepreneur and a current investor. He shares his founder journey at Flexpat, a company that facilitated Remote work prior to the pandemic. He is currently an advisory board member of Zephr. 

Arthur is also the author of Leaders of Growth, where he interviewed 47 leaders of world-class companies who grew their start-ups from $1 million to $25 million and beyond. 

Denis Kalyshkin is an investor of I2BF ventures. Prior to joining I2BF, Denis held various positions in investment management, sales, and analytics in banks, VCs, and energy companies and was a co-founder in an ad tech start-up. Denis has an Applied Mathematics & Physics degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a Corporate Finances degree from National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Simon Lau is the Product head of Otter.ai which is an AI-powered assistant that generates rich notes for meetings, interviews, and other important voice conversations. After meeting him at Clubhouse, we spoke to him about his views on the future of audio in the digital universe. 

Anna Boyarkina is the Head of 'Use cases' of Miro, which is the online collaborative whiteboard platform that empowers distributed teams to work together efficiently and effectively. She shares her favorite book: "The Power of Moments: Why certain experiences have an extraordinary impact" by Dan & Chip Heath during our candid conversations.

Justin Mitchell is the Founder of Yac which is an audio-first messaging platform that helps you talk faster and build stronger relationships with your remote team. Yac is Featured in TechCrunch & Wall Street Journal after their recent fund-raise of $10M in funding from GGV, Slack, Betaworks, BoostVC, Active Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and more. 

Alisée de Tonnac is the co-founder of Seedstars, which is a Swiss-based investment holding with a mission to impact people's lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.

Kiran Mysore is a Principal at UTEC Japan leading their Global AI Investments, with a focus on Singapore and India. He is an AI-researcher-turned VC. Since joining UTEC in 2018, Kiran has led investments of close to $30 Million in frontier science & deep-tech companies incl. Tricog Health, Bugworks Research, OPALai, Agara & SWAT Mobility.