Earlier this month, I spent a few days riding in Karnataka and Kerala. I started riding out of Bangalore and here are some of the highlights from the ride 👇🏽
Lost Ravish Tiwari to cancer earlier this morning. Go well, my brother. From a town in east UP to IIT Bombay to Oxford on Rhodes scholarship to Indian Express. You will always be part of stories we tell.
The serene and stunning Chola temple in Gangaikonda Cholapuram (Brihadeeswara Temple). Completed in 1035 AD and part of the Great Living Chola Temples, a world heritage site.
🚀 LAUNCHING 🚀
Excited to announce the all-new Toppr School OS - a super intuitive operating system for schools to run online. School OS will enable teachers to do what they do the best -- teach -- while the OS takes care of quality learning material and technology. 1/8
Found this in the comments section on a news site:
When villagers pronounced "School" as "इस्कुल" ... we all laughed. But now the children are attending "e-school"
😂
The magnificent Chola temple in Darasuram near Kumbakonam (Airavateswara temple). Built in 12th century AD and part of the Great Living Chola Temples, a world heritage site.
Sharing our vision of the Ola Futurefactory! With 10M units/yr, it'll be the largest 2W factory in the world, 15% of world’s capacity! With 3000+ robots, it'll be the most advanced & with 100 acres of forest, carbon negative operations, it‘ll be the most sustainable.
@OlaElectric
In view of the evolving situation around COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak and given that some schools are shut and studies interrupted, we are making Toppr's LIVE CLASSES completely free for all students in 5th-12th classes.
#covid19
#coronavirus
#coronavirusindia
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Also, big shoutout to Sanjeev Bikhchandani
@sbikh
for inspiring the Indian startup ecosystem 2x over. First with Naukri and then with backing and shouldering stellar companies like Zomato. Salute, sir, to you and your team.
The imposing 'big temple' of Thanjavur (Brihadeeswara temple / Rajarajesvaram). Completed in 1010 AD and part of the Great Living Chola Temples, a world heritage site.
Being able to hire software engineers from
@NewtonSchoolHQ
, designers from
@10kdesigners
and tap into product talent at
@getupraised
-- what a different time this is for hiring tech talent from, say, 5 years ago.
Met a friend two weeks ago who works at Nexus. He just wouldn’t stop about how great a guiding force Naren is.
Go well, Naren Sir. Your work will live through many others you mentored and coached. Thank you for your impact on your firm, venture capital and Indian startups.
We chase what we hype. We probably need a new term.
Instead of Unicorns 🦄 ($1B private valuation), we need to start talking about Dragons 🐉 ($100M in gross margin).
Don't understand why we are obsessing about a week with XYZ unicorns. High time we should stop cleberating unicorns.
First, the bar is higher now. Second, unicorn is not the end game. It's just the beginning. Third, unicorns are indeed mythical. Doesn't mean much before an IPO
1/3 Came across this slide in a presentation on edtech site traffic by
@SimilarWeb
team. Toppr went from
#12
in 2019 to
#4
now (
#2
if you exclude non-K12)
@myToppr
My nephew got 94.33% without any tuition, sister informed me that, he use Toppr app to clear things ! That's amazing. Please note he is from tier3 city 🤟 Amazing job guys, cheers !
Massive respect for founders like Bhavish, Abhiraj, Deepinder, Harsha for building companies in super tough categories. Job creation is hard.
Thank you
@abhirajbhal
… keep marching.
In the last couple of days, there have been some concerns regarding the earnings and well-being of our service partners. We hear you, and through this article, would like to highlight some important facts and data-points. 1/n
At Toppr, we are super proud of our product metrics. Our north-star metric -- time spent per day -- is over 100 mins per DAU. For our subscribers, our D180 retention is 27%, W26 retention is 57%, M6 retention is 78%. Our DAU to MAU ratio is 40%.
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Check out Rajiv Singh in his well-researched story for Forbes on how Toppr is penetrating into tier-2 Indian cities with its on-the-ground counseling and sales team.
Oranje is the new Green! Was a pleasure to host Ambassador
@BergMarten
at
@OlaElectric
Futurefactory. We built 9 customised Ola S1 scooters in Dutch Oranje and they look absolutely stunning!
Make in India and make for the world!
I have met zero companies with reasonable success where the co-founders didn’t know each other from much before starting the company.
Seems like arranged marriage model doesn’t work in building companies.
This morning, Toppr features in a
@MorningContext
long-read.
You do tens of media interviews. But once in a while, you hit a writer who asks questions that make you think, help you reflect, and strengthen your resolve. Qs that you love answering.
This is scary! On , students can chat with tutors 24x7 to ask/clarify their doubts. 8 weeks ago, we released a feature to solve the doubts using a machine. Today 18% of these doubts are already solved by the machine!
#beginnings
In August, I spent a week at the
@PostcardHotel
in Goa. They are redefining what luxury boutique travel experiences can look like in the sub-continent.
Toppr is proud to partner with
@MumbaiPolice
and will be providing them free access to our learning app for their children. It was our privilege to meet CM
@Dev_Fadnavis
and we look forward to creating a
#BetterLearning
environment for India.
@malpani
Kahan dekh liye yaar Toppr ke ads? Mujhe bhi dikha do. Aise hi aankh taras gaye Toppr ke ads TV par dekhne ke liye.
Aur Toppr ka traffic dekha hai? Woh poora bagair ad ke banaya hai.
350,000,000 school-age children in India. When you build for them, you know you are also building for 5% of the world's population. 5% of humanity. 1/n
1/ A thread on
@mytoppr
product numbers.
Enrolments: One year ago, majority of our enrolments came in from higher grades. Now, we have more enrolments in lower grades than in higher grades.
🧪 EXPERIMENT 🧪
If you designed a school from scratch today, how would it look? What would you like our children to learn? How? How many hours? Where?
Tweet your 💡 ideas with
#aNewSchool
Toppr student Shridhar Dodamani tops Karnataka CET 2018. Such a joy to be tiny part of many million such journeys as students discover and nurture their talent.
We need year-on-year comparison. Given Diwali fell during Nov in 2018 and during Oct in 2019, let’s look at
#GST
collection for Oct+Nov.
Oct-Nov 2018: 1.98 lakh crore
Oct-Nov 2019: 1.98 lakh crore
This is before we adjust for 3-4% inflation. Can run this for Jan-Nov too.
#GST
collection for November at Rs 1.03 lakh crore, which is nearly 14% higher than Sept (0.91 lakh crore) & 8% higher than Oct (0.95 lakh crore). Real consumption data!!
Last evening I had the honour of meeting President Macron and showing him the Toppr app and the work we are doing in edtech in India. New Delhi, India.
@paraschopra
Being a billionaire gives you at least 100x more impact in giving than being just a millionaire.
Imagine you have $10M, you want to keep $5M and give away the rest. Now imagine you have $1B, you want to keep $100M and give away the rest.
Gutted to know that we won't see the brilliant brilliant Irfan Khan anymore. Remember him for his superb body of work
Haasil
Maqbool
The Namesake
New York, I Love You
Yeh Saali Zindagi
Paan Singh Tomar
The Lunchbox
Haider
Qarib Qarib Single
and many more.
Goodbye
#IrrfanKhan
It's Toppr's 5th today! Probably the 5 most fun years of my life. Definitely the 5 quickest years of my life. Thank you Toppr family for everything.
#topprturns5
#lovemywork