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Gagan Biyani 🏛 · 108,731 followers

Co-Founder @udemy. CEO @MavenHQ. Fighting for Oakland via https://t.co/gKEElNlpMH

People have asked me how I feel about Udemy’s sale to Coursera. Honestly, I’m kinda pissed about it. I want to be clear - I’m grateful for the opportunity to start and benefit from Udemy’s success. It changed my life. But there’s another side to Udemy. A story of what could hav…↗

·@gaganbiyani·Apr 14, 2026·business·coursera·edtech·founder·merger

Social headlines make it seem cohort-based courses are in the toilet. Yet Maven’s instructors have 2x’ed their earnings in the last 12 months. What is going on? In the last year: The altMBA shut down. Building a Second Brain shut down. Write of Passage shut down. d/MBA announced…↗

·@gaganbiyani·Oct 30, 2024·essay·cohort-courses·course-business·creator-economy·maven

Introducing “Superpowers” - the underlying skills that help you succeed at anything I spent nearly 6 months building this list and almost wrote a book on the subject Instead, I’ve condensed that work into a pithy (and punchy) Twitter thread **Read On**↗

·@gaganbiyani·Feb 2, 2021·essay·productivity·self-improvement·skills

Before Udemy could succeed, we had to solve a chicken and egg problem. These problems are a constant dilemma for founders. (ie. Funding is needed to scale but scale is needed for funding.) Here's how we bumbled to a solution that kicked off our $3B business. **Read On**↗

·@gaganbiyani·Jan 22, 2021·essay·funding·growth·startup·udemy

A new online education revolution is happening. I've been taking dozens of online courses recently that are 10x better than what was possible in 2008 when we started @udemy. Educators, Influencers, Bootstrappers and Startups: A thread about the future: *Read On*↗

I’m biased but @udemy is a true underdog story + thought I’d share details we’ve never shared before. ICYMI, we announced a $50M raise at $2B valuation. Udemy almost died at least 5x. We got rejected by everyone in the Valley. Startups are never a straight line. *Read on*↗

·@gaganbiyani·Feb 20, 2020·essay·entrepreneurship·funding·startup·udemy