Böcker av Nistha Tripathi

How did a nondescript YouTube channel become a unicorn startup?The journey started when Gaurav Munjal and Hemesh Singh quit their jobs at CommonFloor and Roman Saini quit the Indian Administrative Service to start a YouTube channel that helped students prepare for competitive exams. Six years and 49 million users later, Unacademy has changed the way Indians learn and also democratized access to high-quality education.If COVID-19 was a trial by fire for every industry, edtech was one of the sectors perfectly poised for a boom. Many online education startups were in the fray but only a few survived. Unacademy not only outsmarted the competition, but also surpassed every projection and created a new yardstick of success, becoming a $3.5 billion valued edtech startup.In Unstartup, bestselling startup author Nistha Tripathi traces the gravity-defying ascent of Unacademy. Drawing on numerous conversations with people in and around Unacademy including its founders, board members, advisors, current and ex-employees, Nistha takes the reader through a page-turning rhapsody of startup strategies and lessons. These insider accounts and anecdotes reveal the day-to-day thinking, decisions and discipline of a unique (un)startup.Reams have been written about the glitz surrounding startups, but it is the daily grind, small choices and critical pivots that no one tells you about. Unstartup offers a ringside view of how Unacademy ignored conventional advice and created its own playbook for success.

A constellation of imaging satellites detecting gas leaks, voice bots mirroring your accent, portable breathing devices to save infants-this is not Silicon Valley-these are Made-in-India startups.MIT trained scientist, Varun Aggarwal, and a bestselling startup author, Nistha Tripathi, come together to investigate a world of startups beyond e-commerce, payment gateways, hotel and cab aggregation. They interview 10 deeptech and AI founders in India who are not only creating space technology, genomics tools, robots, self-driving vehicles but also building successful business models around them. Many of them already have global clients and are getting closer to the unicorn valuations. The book demystifies complex-sounding technologies that power deeptech and AI startups. A must-read for anyone passionate about startups and technology.