Abhimanyu Saxena is a software engineer turned founder. He has co-founded InterviewBit and Scaler Academy. In this episode he spoke about how colleges can adapt and evolve to be more relevant, closing the loop between learning and employment, scaling a cohort based learning course to an institution and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa.

Key Highlights:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:11) Improving employability

(05:04) How can colleges adapt and evolve?

(10:25) Founding journey of Scaler

(17:20) Pivoting from InterviewBit to Scaler

(19:56) What is Scaler?

(26:51) Closing the loop between learning and employment

(30:59) Scaler's typical customers

(31:35) Doing the 0-1-10 in customer acquisition

(35:07) Lessons from running cohort based learning courses

(38:05) Scaling a cohort based course to an institution

(40:32) Moving beyond income sharing agreements

(45:19) How is Abhimanyu evolving as a founder

(48:13) Culture v/s process

(49:48) Books and podcast recommendations

(51:07) Closing remarks

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EP 137 : Building the University of the Future - Abhimanyu Saxena (Co-founder, Scaler Academy) | Improving Skills & Employability | Enabling Engineering Recruitment