{"id":1125,"date":"2017-09-04T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:45:53","slug":"gaurav-munjal-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/gaurav-munjal-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaurav Munjal – The Other Salman Khan of India"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Exclusive Interview with Gaurav Munjal<\/h2>\n

Rw: First of all Gaurav Munjal, please accept our gratitude for allowing us to have an exclusive interview with other<\/span> Salman Khan of India <\/a>(Khan Academy<\/a>) or should we call you the Rival of Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> for diverting Indian Youth from Facebook to Unacademy?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Gaurav Munjal: I would be happy to be called “Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy”. We\u2019re on a mission to revolutionize education and impact millions of lives<\/span>, like WhatsApp<\/a>, Google <\/a>or Facebook<\/a>. Our vision is to build the world\u2019s largest educational repository<\/a> by empowering great educators and making it accessible to everyone. This is about the Future of Education!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Rw: Thank you so much, Gaurav Sir for giving us the opportunity to interview you. You seriously don’t need any introduction as Lakhs of students have been benefited by Unacademy and they all know who built it. Still, for the new brigade of knowledge seekers, we want you to give a brief introduction of yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"gaurav<\/a><\/p>\n

Gaurav Munjal: I\u2019m an entrepreneur, co-founder & CEO of Unacademy. I graduated from NMIMS in Computer Science and worked with Media.net<\/a> (Directi) as a software developer for one year. In 2013, I started Flat.to\/Flatchat which was later sold to CommonFloor. I consider myself a product guy with a flair for marketing and hustling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rw: So Sir, What should we call you? A Tech Evangelist, An Entrepreneur or India’s best Educator? And how was your experience in meeting PM Modi and what was your message to Team India of NITI Aayog?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Gaurav<\/a><\/p>\n

Gaurav Munjal: I see myself as an entrepreneur in the education technology segment, building a platform that is invaluable to millions of students and teachers. By harnessing the latest technologies, we are helping educators and students across the nation connect with each other and share knowledge faster and with a larger reach that has ever been attempted before.<\/span><\/p>\n