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. 

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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). 

As I am learning the secret sauce of CBC in her Maven Course Accelerator #MVN3, in Season 2, we speak with our mentors, friends, and advisors. 

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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. 

Republic of SaaS Season 2 coming soon as we take the feedback from all our community members. 

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. The Audio revolution is here to stay in 2021. 

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. Feel free to join the Miro Community to navigate the Miroverse and learn from the digital mavericks. 

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. 

Audio is indeed powerful, and it touches every aspect of our lives. It connects us with our loved ones, and strangers across the world. It tells us stories, and it keeps us company as we simply work in this new world. Just when ClubHouse opened up its platform to Android users, we had a candid chat with Justin to understand how the world of audio is shaping the future of work. 

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. The groups' activities cover over 80 emerging ecosystems through a variety of activities such as acceleration programs, events & training, physical hubs called Seedspace, venture capital investments, and company building activities. We speak with Alisée to discover her worldview around her entrepreneurial experiences. Feel free to join our future conversations on the Seedstars House. 

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. He is also responsible for UTEC’s collaboration with Blume Ventures in India named BUDHA (Blume UTEC Deep-tecH Accelerator). Before becoming a VC, Kiran worked on Open innovation in Deloitte Japan, and was an AI/ML researcher at The University of Tokyo where he also co-founded a student-led social enterprise named 'Kriya'. For his contribution to the ecosystem, Kiran was featured in the 2020 FORBES Asia 30 Under 30 list in the Finance & VC category.