#417: Gagan Biyani – The Keys To Learning

The Danny Miranda Podcast

Gagan Biyani is an entrepreneur. He’s the current CEO of Maven and the cofounder of Udemy.

0:00 Writing For TechCrunch

10:02 Less People Should Go Into Startups

11:34 Starting Businesses For Wrong Reasons?

13:00 Why Did Gagan Start Udemy?

16:26 Chips On Shoulder

18:21 Startups Made Him Sick

20:55 How Has Greatness Evolved?

22:10 Justin Kan

23:31 “I Love Learning”

27:02 Can You Show Up As Worst Player?

28:01 Gagan’s Soccer Story

29:02 What Does Gagan Know About Learning?

32:29 Love The Boring

35:32 You Don’t Need Money To Get A Coach

41:00 “It Is Your Fault”

42:31 “I Am Normal”

44:00 Going From Nobody To Somebody

45:05 How Do You Become Proficient From Square 0

47:02 Full Immersion

50:02 What Did Gagan Learn From Biggest Professional Failure?

54:21 How Did That Failure Change His Perception Of Self?

56:02 Lessons From Sabbatical

1:03:55 We’re All Just Living In Our Own Heads

1:05:45 Third Company (Maven) Reflections

1:06:13 Warning Alarm Goes Off For Both

1:08:21 Tempo Of Company

1:13:02 Running A Company Is Hard

1:16:12 Art Of Interviewing Advice

1:18:21 Cohort Based Course Vs. Async Course

1:20:56 How To Market Course

1:23:50 Overcoming Fear Of Judgment

1:26:00 Challenge

1:28:49 LinkedIn Better Than Twitter?

Links

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaganbiyani

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaganbiyani/

My Links 🎙 Podcast: ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/dannymiranda⁠⁠

🎥 YouTube: ⁠⁠https://youtube.com/dannymiranda⁠⁠

🐣 Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda⁠⁠

📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda⁠⁠

❓ Course: ⁠⁠https://www.artofinterviewing.com⁠