Changing Education in India ft. Pratham Mittal, Founder of Masters' Union || Indian Silicon Valley

Welcome Viewers, we are now recording our episodes in person, shooting these high quality conversations and bringing them to you! For first in person conversation on the podcast, we have Pratham Mittal, Founder & CEO of Masters' Union. Masters' Union is leading the wave of practical education, disrupting the way we look at higher education in India. This is one of the most disruptive models in India and there is no person better than Pratham to share the nuances around the same. Join us for an incredible conversation! Read more about the MU model here - economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/edu… Keep sending us suggestions on how we can make this better as we revamp the video version of the podcast, cheers! 0:00 - Start 1:28 - Intro to Pratham's early experiences 7:10 - US Education and Its Impact 11:40 - How does Pratham look at Entrepreneurship? 15:41 - Education is Broken?! 22:12 - What is Masters' Union? 25:30 - The First Cohort of MU 30:02 - Founder Scaling as the Business Scales 32:45 - How to tackle Placements & Outcomes in Education? 36:50 - Certainty of Placements at MU 39:36 - Building the MU Team 44:30 - Hiring non-industry folks to disrupt an industry 47:55 - How is MU looking at starting an Undergrad Cohort? 55:21 - Parent Story at the MU Graduation '22 56:30 - How does MU Scale? 59:27 - Stakeholder Management as an Education Institution 1:07:48 - Student Journey at Masters' Union 1:15:56 - Founder Journey for Pratham 1:19:55 - Mentors for Pratham 1:21:30 - Wearing multiple hats as a Founder 1:26:02 - Scaling as a Founder 1:31:04 - Core Challenges that Pratham is Facing