#30: Leaving Google X to build Yoodli aka Grammarly for Speech | Varun Puri (CEO and Co-Founder @ Yoodli, ex-Google X)

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, Marc and Ben are joined by Varun Puri, CEO and co-founder of Yoodli, a platform helping people improve their public speaking skills. Varun shares his journey from working with Sergey Brin at Google to taking the leap into entrepreneurship. The conversation delves into Varun’s time at Google X, the early days of building Yoodli, the harsh realities of founding a company, and the joys of actually making a difference.

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In this episode, we covered the following topics:

* Varun’s experience reporting directly to Sergey Brin at Google and Google X

* His transition from a Google PM to founding Yoodli

* Challenges of building a public speaking platform

* The realities of entrepreneurship, from personal sacrifices to celebrating wins

* Lessons learned from building a consumer-focused product and pivoting to enterprise sales

* Advice for product leaders thinking about starting their own business

* And more!

If you’d like to watch the video of our conversation, you can catch that on YouTube:

Links:

* Varun Puri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-puri001/

* Yoodli: https://yoodli.ai/

* Esha Joshi (Yoodli’s other co-founder): https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshajoshi/

* Ben: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benerez/

* Marc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcbaselga/

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