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Oct 25, 2026

Nishtha TripathiGUEST
39:07
And then I think other we did Fasos.
Nishtha TripathiGUEST
39:09
Unacademy was very, very small back then.
Nishtha TripathiGUEST
39:12
So all those startups, Paras Chopra, I interviewed, whose startup eventually self-sold for one of the biggest amounts, SaaS startups.
Nishtha TripathiGUEST
39:20
So I interviewed him.
Varun MayyaHOST
39:50
Next slide.
Varun MayyaHOST
39:53
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.
Varun MayyaHOST
40:10
And there's no difference.
Varun MayyaHOST
40:13
Views, likes, comments, there's no difference.
Varun MayyaHOST
17:43
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.
Varun MayyaHOST
17:48
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.
Varun MayyaHOST
17:58
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...
Varun MayyaHOST
18:08
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.

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