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$1.5M MRR Education Platform: Teachable’s CEO, Ankur Nagpal, Shares Growth Journey from Early Grit Days to Today’s Systematic Growth Machine
$1.5M MRR Education Platform: Teachable’s CEO, Ankur Nagpal, Shares Growth Journey from Early Grit Days to Today’s Systematic Growth Machine
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42 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2020
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Podcast episode
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For this episode, I interviewed Ankur Nagpal, Founder and CEO of Teachable, a SaaS platform that is disrupting the online education space.
Ankur shares his journey from the grit driven growth of the early days to what is now a large eduction platform generating $1.5M in monthly recurring revenue in addition to significant transaction fees.
We discuss
Why it’s important to bake growth into the culture of a business in the early days
The role that aggressive targets played in helping trigger creative growth programs
How early customer education programs help reduce churn rates
How Teachable has evolved the growth and marketing team structure
Future growth plans for maintaining aggressive growth targets
Ankur shares his journey from the grit driven growth of the early days to what is now a large eduction platform generating $1.5M in monthly recurring revenue in addition to significant transaction fees.
We discuss
Why it’s important to bake growth into the culture of a business in the early days
The role that aggressive targets played in helping trigger creative growth programs
How early customer education programs help reduce churn rates
How Teachable has evolved the growth and marketing team structure
Future growth plans for maintaining aggressive growth targets
Released:
Feb 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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