These two college friends wanted to build India’s own Ivy League for techies, this is how far they’ve come. Meet the founders of Scaler, India’s leading tech education academy.
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00:00I quit Facebook to become a teacher.
00:02I quit my job at world's fastest growing unicorn to become a teacher.
00:31We both were very fascinated by building things with tech which could create large impact.
00:46Both companies obviously like not as big as a successful company but they helped us teach a lot of learnings in life.
01:00Whenever I would come back to India, I would spend some time just brainstorming on what all has happened, what are the top problem statements on our mind.
01:19Higher education is one of the most accessible means to upskill and get employed.
01:31Unfortunately as of today, that high quality of education is accessible to very few.
01:37Either people need to be very rich or they need to be 0.1% in intelligence.
01:49And then what we realized is that content alone is not helping.
02:03People need personal guidance and a community of like minded people together with who they can learn.
02:19We felt if somebody has to teach tech, they have to be people who have been there, done that.
02:40At Scalar as well, people who teach you are good teachers but they are also practitioners.
02:45Most of our instructors are the people who have been senior professionals at companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft.
03:05All of us are very different. We learn at a different pace, we know different things but universities usually have one solution fits all kind of an approach.
03:13At Scalar, we measure how much you know at the beginning and based on that you are categorized.
03:18You are categorized as a beginner, intermediate or advanced.
03:34When someone is able to transition into high quality employment, it doesn't impact one life, it impact life of the entire family.
03:43You are categorized as a beginner, intermediate or advanced.