EP 165 : Masterclass: Managing a Pivot with Saurabh Saxena (Founder & CEO, Uable)

Saurabh Saxena is a serial entrepreneur and has co founded startups like Lakshya and Vedantu and is currently the founder of Uable. In this episode he spoke about making the decision to pivot Uable from an edtech to a teens only social app, the nuances of managing such a pivot, how to build for teenagers and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

00:00 Introduction 

01:36 Why Saurabh decided to Pivot

06:28 Selling a pivot to your stakeholders 

09:33 Nuances of managing a pivot

13:53 Advice to entrepreneurs on pivoting

16:34 Best advice Saurabh received on Pivoting

18:26 Uable 2.0 

21:43 Nuances of building for teenagers

24:53 User acquisition for a teen app

26:57 The "AHA" moment for a Uable user

30:28 Content moderation

33:53 Saurabh's thoughts on Content Community and Commerce

36:20 High level challenges Saurabh is solving

39:20 Saurabh's thoughts on the Indian startup ecosystem

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-learn/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Saurabh_Learn

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Check out our old episode with Saurabh

Building in Edtech: https://youtu.be/hPRBeCatC2A

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