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

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 ------------------------------------- Click here to get regular WhatsApp updates: https://wa.me/message/ZUZQQGKCZTADL1 ------------------------------------- Connect with Abhimanyu : Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhimanyusaxena/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/asxna?s=20 ------------------------------------- Connect with Us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​ ------------------------------------- If you liked this episode, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message