Exploring Maven: The Power of Online Learning and Community

Wes Kao is the Co-founder of Maven, the first education platform to offer Cohort-based & Community-driven courses. Maven raised $20 million in Series A funding last year. Before that Wes built the Alt-MBA course with Seth Godin. She helped grow the business to thousands of students across 550 cities. She has over 130K followers on Twitter sharing her thoughts on marketing, online courses & mental frameworks.

In this episode we talk about:

- What inspired Wes to pursue a career in Marketing

- How to push through Imposter Syndrome early in your career

- How to get promoted & get more responsibility at work

- The value of Rigorous thinking & noticing details

- How to find & develop your career superpower