1:00- Weirdest course on teachable
1:50- Backstory
3:09- Playing Cricket
3:40- Starting a business as a kid
5:16- Parents thoughts on building stuff on the web
6:22- Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit
8:00- Moving to America
9:25- Learning to code and working for Facebook
10:19- Branching into more frivolous applications
12:20- Interning at Amazon and going to school
13:48- Being “all-in” on the Facebook stuff
14:13- “The bottom fell out multiple times”
17:15- Spending time figuring out Facebook’s algorithms
18:48- Consulting and new business ideas
20:32- Stumbling upon the idea for Teachable
21:46- Building the first version
22:40- Hacking together existing tools to pull it together
23:33- Direct sales
25:30- Self-perpetuating momentum and building too many features
28:48- Learning valuable skills from the fundraising process
30:00- Fundraising when you don’t need the money
31:00- Rebuilding the foundation and making the numbers grow
33:08- Accidental email
34:15- Growth- deconstructing and working backwards
36:03- Changing the name from Fedora to Teachable
38:44- The mission and people owning their own stuff
39:55- Traditional education versus learning online
41:15- Being a creator, building an audience, and monetizing that audience
42:23- The next year at Teachable
43:23- Being excited to have other executives
Get in touch with Ankur: teachable.com, @ankurnagpal
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