Working For An EdTech AMA

As the title says. Have worked close to 10 years now in this industry. Can answer on how sales, marketing and operations work here. Never had visibility on funding etc but have seen the ill effects of toxic VC money

Ask questions you have here about PMing in Edtech. Will do my best to answer

Why AMA?- New to GV. I see potential here; trying to gauge audience and perhaps I can talk about a thing or two; can definitely learn from ya’al otherwise. Primer Qs (from some successful AMAs outside of GV)- What tech has better future? Is Ai going to kill our jobs? How to increase Tc 5x, 10x, 20x+? Startups vs big corps? Background, Tc stuff- Decade+ yoe Started with <10Lpa. Crossed >10Lpm. Life is fun and no amount of money is enough. I’ve seen it firsthand that the investments and luxuries grow at far bigger rate than your comp, Can’t complain though.

Hello everyone, Saw quite some people doing AMAs on this platform from VCs to Engineers, but nobody from Founder's Office roles. Knowing that this role is somewhat new in the job market, not many people still know a lot about it. Shoot your questions, would answer them to the best of my capacity. Background: Worked in the FO role for 2 FMCG brands, before joining a Fintech where I am working right now. Graduated from BIT, Mesra in 2021, but started working alongside my graduation coz of COVID.

Graphy has forced a 30% salary cut on each employee to achieve profitability this year. This cut will be applicable from February onwards until 7-8 months. Truly a sad time for the Edtech ecosystem.

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Most Edtech startups seem to be providing very little value, and are pure sales machines. Learning is super important, and I’m beginning to realise I’ve not done any structured online learning in the longest times (Coursera early days, Bucky Roberts on YouTube etc.) Wanted to know if any of you have tried out online courses somewhere and have had a genuinely good learning experience?

Do you think that most of the edtechs for College students and professionals just dump a ton of web developers, who have also crammed up DSA. Once, a Scaler sales person called me and we talked for almost an hour. I said that I'm already working in a product company and was making a decent (decent only, not in par with the usual SDE salaries in tier 1 tech companies). He still wanted me to sign up 😂 I said that, I'm willing to sign up only if they have a detailed course on a topic (development using Java, and Kotlin). He said that they do web development only because it's a vetted curriculum and easy to learn and get a job. I asked why do they charge a ton of money while they've made the curriculum public, and the response was that it's for the faculties and the mentors available. It doesn't make sense to me, as we can connect easily with most of the people from any of the companies (and usually a good number of people are just waiting for someone to reach out to them). Where will this end? A ton of web developers who are just there because of the salary? Some says that India is not yet home to good deep tech companies, and I believe that this is the reason for the same. I strongly feel that a good number of the software developers are just there because they got into it without exploring further options, and because of the pay (not everyone)