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Oct 25, 2026
What Does not Kill You, Makes you Stronger - Courage Talks S15E6
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39:07Nishtha TripathiGUEST
And then I think other we did Fasos.
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39:09Nishtha TripathiGUEST
Unacademy was very, very small back then.
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39:12Nishtha TripathiGUEST
So all those startups, Paras Chopra, I interviewed, whose startup eventually self-sold for one of the biggest amounts, SaaS startups.
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39:20Nishtha TripathiGUEST
So I interviewed him.
Guide to Scaling A Startup with Zero Funding | Kata 1
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39:50Varun MayyaHOST
Next slide.
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39:53Varun MayyaHOST
So an example we did for Unacademy, right, where We compared and, you know, the problem statement at that time was, hey, can you make this virtual presenter for long form? This is almost a year point something ago, right? Where we compared the non-AI and AI views.
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40:10Varun MayyaHOST
And there's no difference.
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40:13Varun MayyaHOST
Views, likes, comments, there's no difference.
How Simplifying Everything Makes You Rich
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17:43Varun MayyaHOST
I'll tell you what we learned at Scenes, one of my, you know, one of the startups that I'd started in the past.
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17:48Varun MayyaHOST
It did okay revenue-wise, but at the same time, I think I learned a very important lesson from it because I sold it to Unacademy at the end of the day, but it didn't end where I wanted it to end.
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17:58Varun MayyaHOST
And I think what we learned is that because we had like this thing called weak PMF, weak product market fit, some people would use the product, but they wouldn't like...
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18:08Varun MayyaHOST
Like tomorrow when WhatsApp launched communities, they would always move there Right? And we'd have like, at the end of the day, these brand managers would be like, "Uh, you know what? I would use your community product." And we were a community product, right? We were a Discord that you could run on your own, like, app.