Entrepreneurship & EdTech Innovator; Co-Founder of Udemy & Maven; CEO at Horowitz Andreessen Academy
Gagan Biyani Biography
Gagan Biyani is an American entrepreneur, marketer, and journalist recognized for his work in online education, technology startups, and growth marketing. Biyani graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in economics and began his career at Accenture before moving into technology entrepreneurship and journalism. As a journalist at TechCrunch, he covered mobile applications and technology, notably breaking an investigative story about a public relations firm writing fake reviews on the App Store, which led to a Federal Trade Commission investigation.
Biyani co-founded Udemy, an early massive open online course (MOOC) platform. Udemy enables educators and experts to create and share online courses globally, offering both free and paid courses in subjects such as business, entrepreneurship, academics, arts, health, fitness, language, music, and technology. During the company’s early fundraising efforts, Biyani and his cofounders pitched to more than 200 investors before building Udemy into a multibillion-dollar public company. Biyani oversaw Udemy's marketing and investor relations before leaving to serve as a growth advisor for Lyft, where he acted as advisor and interim head of demand marketing, launching Lyft in Los Angeles and developing the company’s first new market launch playbook.
Biyani founded the Growth Hackers Conference in San Francisco, featuring industry leaders in growth marketing. He later co-founded Sprig, a food delivery startup that reached a nine-digit valuation before shutting down. Biyani applied lessons from both success and failure to his next venture, Maven, which aimed to democratize expert knowledge through cohort-based courses. Maven’s courses achieved high engagement rates compared to traditional video-based courses. Biyani also developed the widely discussed startup framework, the minimum viable test, which critiques the concept of a minimum viable product in early-stage product development.
With nearly two decades of experience in education technology and entrepreneurship, Biyani became CEO of Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a private, for-profit school designed as an alternative to traditional college for students interested in technology, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence. The academy, incubated by a16z and supported by investors such as Adam D’Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Tony Xu, and Garry Tan, focuses on project-based learning and features lectures from technology leaders including Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Travis Kalanick, and Mira Murati. Biyani’s career reflects a focus on entrepreneurship, online education, and the evolving future of work.
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