Discussing @takeUforward launch, controversies, college life with @striver_79 | OP 1

In the first episode of _On Point_ (AKA the OP Podcast), we have Raj Vikramaditya AKA @striver_79 in conversation with Pulkit Chhabra. Raj is a software engineer working in Google, a youtuber, and founder of @takeUforward, a company valued at 10s of millions of dollars. In this podcast, we start by talking about Raj's college life, and what he did in each semester, what led to him giving youtube a shot. Then, we talk about his youtube journey where he had a fair share of controversies, tried to understand his point of view on courses. Towards the end, we also spend quite some time in what went behind the launch of the @takeUforward platform, which is used by 1000s of people today, and will probably be used by lakhs of them in the years to come. Enjoy! *Timestamps* 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:57 - TUF+ revenue so far 0:02:40 - College Life 0:25:03 - YouTube started 0:32:09 - Controversy with an Ed-tech company 0:35:55 - Was Striver against courses? 0:42:50 - Why did he launch the TUF+ platform? 0:51:00 - Journey of TUF+ 0:58:00 - Striver’s schedule while working on TUF+ 1:04:27 - Problems ka pahad on the launch day 1:11:45 - Journey of TUF+ continued 1:20:48 - Recent controversy on twitter 1:27:08 - Investment Offers for TUF 1:31:49 - Future Plans 1:35:58 - A few khurafaati questions *Raj's Social Media* https://www.instagram.com/striver_79/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajstriver/ *Pulkit's Social Media* https://www.instagram.com/pulkitchhabra6/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pulkitchhabra6/