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Sharath Kuruganty

Maven - 100+ live courses taught by experts, education reimagined

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Started by co-founders of Udemy, altMBA and Venmo...
Maven offers 100+ live online courses led by experienced operators from companies like Meta, Google and Airbnb.
Supercharge your career, get promoted, or learn a life-changing skill on Maven.

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Frankie Zhang
Congrats on the launch! LOVE your product concept and how you present it!
Gagan Biyani
Maker
@frankie_zhang OMG Thanks Frankie; I was pretty thrilled by the designs @ridderingand and @yuanwang1 came up with for this
Frankie Zhang
Dominick Lim
Thrilled to be building this platform to enable such a meaningful change in education with such amazing teammates! Proud of the impact we've already had and so excited to unlock even more teaching and learning potential. Can't wait to see you on Maven!
Gagan Biyani
Maker
@dominicklim So stoked to work with you on this Dom!
Wes Kao
Maker
@dominicklim It's a privilege to learn and build with you Dom 🙌
Natalia Herrera
thanks for sharing!
Wes Kao
Maker
@nataliaherrera Appreciate you Natalia. Would love to hear which courses are catching your eye!
John Gannon
I selected Maven as the home for my 2nd and newest online course (the 1st one has done over $1 million in lifetime revenue) precisely because I know how much work goes into managing: - Discussions (Slack free version is terrible for this, yet most courses choose to use it for some reason -- glad the team chose to lean into this feature) - Calendaring - Landing Pages (Maven's are the best I've seen, with all the right elements, designed beautifully) - Collecting $ (Easy Stripe integration, just took a few clicks) - Student surveys - Content / Courseware management With all of those things covered, instructors like me can focus on the teaching and the learning! Looking forward to see what @weskao @gagan_biyani and the rest of the Maven crew the team ships next.
Shreyans Bhansali
Maker
@weskao @gagan_biyani @johnmgannon 🙌🏽 here's to millions more on Maven, John.
Rahul Nair
Wow, looks super clean and user-friendly. Congrats on your launch!
Gagan Biyani
Maker
@rahul_nair93 Dude thanks Rahul; much appreciated!
Wes Kao
Maker
@rahul_nair93 Thanks Rahul. Check out the courses and I'd love to hear what you think!
Johnny Chen
Such an honor to work with an all-star team. This is just the beginning of an amazing chapter ahead!
Gagan Biyani
Maker
@johnny_chen3 The pleasure is ours, Johnny!
Tom McQuillen
Congratulations on the launch, and the massive progress @gagan_biyani ! What are your thoughts on balancing the value of live participation in classes with accessibility across geographies and timezones where that might be difficult?
Gagan Biyani
Maker
@tommcquillen LOL its such a challenge man. I think we'll just have to figure this out over time - for now we're kind of stuck in the US/EU time zones because of this. Eventually, I expect instructors will do 2 different time zones of their courses and we'll just have a lot more international instructors.
Shreyans Bhansali
Maker
@gagan_biyani @tommcquillen +1 to what Gagan said: we see many instructors teaching across two timezones, and we'll see more of that happen over time as people have a successful first cohort and want to grow. Two other parts to this answer: 1. "Live" is a big part of the CBC experience, but the "cohort" is a huge part of it as well. Async, almost-live discussions with classmates over shared context and lessons can be highly engaging and are unique parts of CBCs. 2. There are incredible experts all over the world, and while USA to Asia is a big timezone gap, EU to Asia, Africa to Australia, North America to South America are much more manageable gaps, and I certainly expect to see amazing instructors to teach CBCs from all these places in the medium term.
Wes Kao
Maker
@gagan_biyani @tommcquillen @shreyans___ Most people think "live" means instructor-led but that's not necessarily true. Cohort-based courses are equally about productive live time with peers in your cohort. For example, the altMBA had 4-5 time zones--and it didn't mean the altMBA staff was awake 24 hours. We put students into small groups with professionals in their own time zone. It's sustainable for both the instructor & convenient for students. Btw students sometimes say they learn more from each other than the instructor. They come for the expert instructor, but stay because of the conversations they're able to have with fellow peers who are in the trenches.
Giovanni Esposito
Great job, thank you
Wes Kao
Maker
@giovanni_esposito1 Thanks Giovanni!
Supreet Tare, Founder AnywhereApp.io
Congratulations @gagan_biyani Looking forward to joining my first CBC on Maven soon.
Wes Kao
Maker
@gagan_biyani @supreet_tare Amazing Supreet. Let us know which one you end up taking!
Supreet Tare, Founder AnywhereApp.io
Aadit
Congrats on the launch, team! I’ve hosted 6 cohorts on Maven and it’s been a pleasure to use the product. What are you guys most excited about?
Shreyans Bhansali
Maker
@aaditssheth how long do we have? The big three for me: 1. Bringing a whole new generation of teachers online - the people that have done it in the real world, and are ready to share what they know with the next generation of leaders. 2. Giving 1000x more students access to incredible discussions, direct interaction with experts, and a community to learn with. 3. Getting to do this with an incredible small team that knows how to build and ship and have a great time together while doing it.
Wes Kao
Maker
@aaditssheth Thank you Aadit! It's been amazing seeing you crush it with your course and add so much value to your students. I'm most excited about (a) doing right by instructors like you and (b) helping students find courses they can't get anywhere else.
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