The Indie Universities Podcast: Recent Episodes
Shelton Desouza
This is a podcast where we deep dive into how creators, founders and investors are building for the future of learning on the internet.
Tune in to discover new learning communities. Gain insights into how creators have build sustainable businesses & get the latest updates on platforms and tools that enable community growth
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This week's guest on the Indie Uni podcast is Abhinav Chhikara, the founder of UISources & 10K Designers. Previously he spent 2.5 years leading the design team over at Unacademy. Unacademy is a VC backed EdTech startup and one of South Asia's largest learning platfrom.
In this episode we spoke about Abhinav's learning journey and getting into design, building and shipping his first products, to leading a design team at Unacademy and then eventually becoming an educator himself. He also shares his vision with 10K Designers and the methodologies he's incorporated to create a healthy learning environment.
E04 - Building a new gen. of Designers w/ Abhinav Chhikara
This weeks guest is Wes Wagner, the founder of Align. (Psst but they might be rebranding soon). He previously was the head of growth at Microverse, an outcome oriented global online university.
In this episode we spoke about the origins of Align, ISAs as a good model for financing education and how creators need to think about business models & can build sustainable online learning communities.
Transcription: Business Models for Digital Educators w/ Wes Wagner
My guest for this week is John Danner.
John is an american Entrepreneur who founded NetGravity (the worlds first advertising server company) RocketShip Education, Zeal Learning. He currently runs a Venture Capital Fund called Dunce Capital which invests in organisations building for the future of learning & work such as Prenda School & Lambda School.
John shares his thoughts on the evolution of learning & how COVID has accelerated the move of experiences online. We also spoke about his early investments, what he expects from the new wave of educreators, the current shortcomings and what they can learn from founders.
Transcription Link: Indie Universities - E02 - The Educreator Uprising w/ John Danner
First Episode!
Our first guest this week is Alberto Arenaza, Co-Founder of Transcend Network, in this episode Alberto shares his views on the evolution of online education, whether offline experiences can be replicated online and some factors that creators & founders should consider when running their community online. Transcription Link: Learning-Communities-E01-The-Future-of-Learning-w-Alberto-Arenaza
Further reading: Clusters by Seth Godin
How Entrepreneurs Can Build Product-Led Communities byStephen Wemple