Sudarshan Gurjar

Senior Educator – Geography & Environment | UPSC Exam Prep

[Sudarshan Gurjar @SudarshanGeo]

Greatness isn’t built on good days. It’s built on days you refuse to give up. Today I learned that from the Master himself. And as @unacademy completes 10 years, I realise the same truth shaped this journey too.
Thank you, @Unacademy & @gauravmunjal @sumjain @RomanSaini

[Dr. Mrunal Patel (Ph.D.) @Mrunal_Patel]

🎉 Felicitation to Team Unacademy by the hon’ble Social Justice Minister for their role in selection of toppers from Gujarat in UPSC-CSE-2025.

Unacademy had given the candidates access to its live lectures, study-material, mocks & courses, through an MoU with SPIPA, Ahmedabad (an autonomous body under the Government of Gujarat).

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[IANS @ians_india]

Delhi: CM Rekha Gupta attends Unacademy Aarambh 2026 program

[Gaurav Munjal @gauravmunjal]

Unacademy turns 10 today

I thought it's a good occasion to jot down some thoughts on this day about the wild ride that we have gone through.

Ten years ago, we started with a simple mission: to empower great educators and make their content accessible to everyone.

This is when the company was started. Unacademy started as a YouTube channel in 2010, 15 years ago. When I was in the 3rd year of my college. And I started making videos on computer science to help my friends.

It continued as a side project with @RomanSaini joining in 2014, and us blitzscaling the YouTube channel. His UPSC videos would get millions of views that helped us in becoming the number one education channel in the country.

We thought that the biggest problem then was that the smartest people are not teaching, and we need a platform where we'll get the best educators who'll create videos for learners for free. Kind of like what Twitch had done to gaming, we wanted to do that to education. Create a YouTube-like platform.

And on 10th December 2015, Unacademy was launched.

For the first four years, we kept adding more and more great educators to the platform, which would lead to millions of learners joining the platform. There was a point in 2018 when we were doing millions of views per month on our own platform, with Unacademy being the number one education app on the Play Store. And it was all organic growth, because we had a rule to not spend money on performance marketing.

These were exciting times. Roman would personally go to the houses of potential educators to convince them to start teaching on an Unacademy. That's how some of the best educators joined the platform.

From the beginning, we always thought of ourselves as a tech company operating in education. Unlike every other player in the market which behaved like an education company using tech to enable them. That's why we had features like streaks, knowledge hats, and a lot of gamification built in for educators and learners. Educators would get massively addicted to the knowledge hats which the learners would gift them on crossing certain milestones.

Even till today, some of the biggest educators that we have are the ones who grew on the free platform that we had built as our first product.

Then, in 2019, just one year before Covid hit, we launched a subscription product where learners could buy a subscription and get access to live classes from the best educators for their exam. The product was an instant hit. From zero revenue in January 2019 to $1.8M revenue in September 2019, we were one of the fastest growing companies to get to almost $20M Bookings ARR in nine months.

The next one year was crazy because our revenue kept scaling and especially post-Covid, we were growing even faster. Almost 1M Paid Subscribers were now enrolled on Unacademy. There were three back-to-back funding rounds. From being a $100M valuation at the start of 2019, we were at a $1.5B valuation by September 2020.

We had spent less than $50M to reach a valuation of $1.5B.

But soon the distractions began.

In the next few months, we did another round, ended up raising another $440 million. Totalling the fund raise to more than $700 million in just less than two years. We thought that what we are seeing in COVID would sustain forever and that's the new reality. And started burning a lot of money to acquire a lot of market share, without realizing that education business is slightly different from a normal tech business, and here your first transaction is basically your LTV.

We had become the number one test prep brand in terms of recall. We were the number one test prep player in terms of online business, which had scaled to almost $100M in revenue.

[Sudarshan Gurjar @SudarshanGeo]

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[Sudarshan Gurjar @SudarshanGeo]

@Sagar95972820 Thank You:)

[Sudarshan Gurjar @SudarshanGeo]

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[UPSC READERS @upsc_readers]

Thank you to all the teachers who came to support students in this time of need and grief.

1. @Mrunal_Patel
2. Pratik Nayak
3. @AnujGarg_AGC
4. @SudarshanGeo

#UPSC #OldRajinderNagar

[Pranav Tiwari @PranavTiwari_05]

@SudarshanGeo sir,@Mrunal_Patel sir,@nayakpratik sir,@AnujGarg_AGCsir also reached in ORN to support. And this will boost our power! Thank you sir! Kam se kam aap log to aayeaur philosopher gyani baba to youtube bs me hi gyan dene ke liye hain!🙏❤️

[Priyanshu soni @ImPriyanshuSoni]

Watching Teachers supporting us gives us more power❤️
@SudarshanGeo @nayakpratik @AdvoSidharth

#UPSCaspirants
#ORNprotests
#DelhiCoachingCenterIncident
#WeWantJustice

[Sudarshan Gurjar @SudarshanGeo]

हाल ही में हुई दिल्ली की घटना से मैं बहुत ही स्तब्ध रह गया हूं की कोई एक एस्पायरेंट जो कि अपने सपने को साकार करने के लिए दिन-रात एक करने की कोशिश करता है और एक क्षण में ही यह सब कुछ धूमिल हो जाता है ! मैं ईश्वर से प्रार्थना करता हूं कि हमें और उनके माता-पिता को यह पीड़ा सहन करने की क्षमता दे 🙏🏻! मैं प्रशासन से भी यह उम्मीद रखता हूं कि इनको उचित न्याय मिले और छात्र हित को ध्यान में रखते हुए अपना निर्णय जल्द लें 🙏🏻
#delhi #DelhiCoachingCenterAccidentorn #DelhiCoaching #RajinderNagar

[Dr. Mrunal Patel (Ph.D.) @Mrunal_Patel]

📚 NCERT Priority Chapters for UPSC: Physical Geography Class 11_PART 2 by Sudarshan Gurjar
https://t.co/a7vZZZjviK

[Abhay Kumar Mishra @mabhay16]

@SudarshanGeo
Today I watched a video of climatology Part-5 UPSC Pre series by Sudarshan Sir & I got Isotherms in ditto form which UPSC is asked in 2024 Pre

[Baroda Prasan Das. @baroda_das]

@nayakpratik @SudarshanGeo Thank you, teacher, for your dedicated efforts in preparing us for the exam. Your guidance and support have been invaluable.80 to 90 percent questions are from your content. I am so happy for this.🙏

[Sudarshan Gurjar @SudarshanGeo]

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[Dr. Mrunal Patel (Ph.D.) @Mrunal_Patel]

बस इतना याद रहे एक साथी और भी था
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[Dr. Mrunal Patel (Ph.D.) @Mrunal_Patel]

🙋🏻 How many Months required to prepare for UPSC?
IAS AIR-2 (2023) Animesh Pradan said following
- 2022-Feb: started UPSC preparation
- 2023-May: gave 1st attempt at Prelims
- 2023-Sept: gave 1st attempt at Mains
- = 19 months ki journey hai.
- Within this, he spent 10 months in preparing his optional sociology. - तो तैयारी को हल्के में मत लीजिए.

- Watch following video to learn more about how Unacademy helps u in this journey with me, Sudarshan sir (@SudarshanGeo) and Madhukar sir.
https://t.co/Zgla3VfQOs

[Dr. Mrunal Patel (Ph.D.) @Mrunal_Patel]

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