Rishin Banker 🏛

Interested in the future of learning and work. CEO @mavenhq, previously @tpt_official, Providence Equity, @goldmansachs

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

I’m honored and excited to take on a new role as CEO at @MavenHQ.

I joined Maven almost 5 years ago. Combined with my prior stint at @TPT_Official, I’ve spent the last decade building education marketplaces. (Not the traditional path for someone who started as an investment banking analyst). I’m unusually excited by incentivizing and scaling great teaching.

At Maven, we’ve defined the category of live, expert-led learning. Our product makes it much easier to run a live course, and has inspired top experts to become instructors. They’ve now earned $100M+ from 100K+ student alumni. Students have increasingly been learning AI skills, which make up 80% of sales.

Recently, a new opportunity has emerged with B2B. AI has created an urgent need to upskill across roles and levels, and the Maven catalog offers a company-wide solution. We’ve set up pilots with companies like Notion, Lattice, and Salesforce, with great results. If you’re interested in exploring a pilot partnership, send me a DM.

I feel lucky to be joined by the high-agency, fun-loving, small-but-mighty team of 20 at Maven. I’m also grateful to have worked closely with each of our founders that shaped our team today. @gaganbiyani demonstrated how to lead with clarity and conviction. I’ll tap him often in his new role as Chairman.

Maven’s mission from 2020 was to “build the university of the future” - that remains, and has only become more important for professionals in the AI era. Pumped for the next chapter!

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

Check out the post here: https://t.co/lPnDTurPF3

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

I believe multi-year tenures are under-appreciated, especially at early startups.

I recently crossed 3 years at Maven. In this time, we’ve grown sales 8X with a lean team of 18 people. As we enter a new growth phase, I thought this would be a good time to reflect.

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@ridd_design @JohnCafazza @diegozaks Aww the feeling is mutual!

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

The best PMs I’ve worked with are “full stack.” And I think the rise of full stack PMs will usher in a new golden age for product managers:

Companies are shrinking team size, AI is creating more leverage per employee, and product leaders are gaining more scope and influence.

For some PMs, this will be a challenge. For others, a huge opportunity.

To take advantage, you have to get your hands dirty. Do some of the analytics yourself, run growth experiments, and leverage AI to speed up your workflows.

You may never be as good as the specialists - that’s OK. You’ll be faster when you do things yourself, drastically improving your productivity. And when you have a team of experts to work with, you’ll be a much more effective leader because you can get in the weeds and work directly with the specialists.

I see this with Maven’s Head of Product, Rishin. He can work with nearly every team. He understands the business strategy, and also gets knee-deep on user flows and customer research.

PMs who can stretch like this will dramatically increase their scope and responsibility.

In our new series The Full Stack PM, we’ve brought together the PMs doing this best, to share their tactical tips with you.

You can get started right now with these free lessons: https://t.co/sSJIGnaRs6.

Hear from:
- The PM behind Figma Slides, @mihikapoor, on how to make an idea go internally viral
- Analytics founder turned Stripe product lead, @g_xing, on how to build dashboards that drive alignment and action
- The original IC PM, @talraviv, on how experienced product managers use ChatGPT
- VP Product at Microsoft, @amitfulay, on how to ace high-stakes product reviews with executives
- Former Director of Growth at Gitlab, @HilaQu, on how to create a data blueprint for product-led growth

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@gaganbiyani Not easy to condense a complex topic to 30-min. Very excited for this format and the upcoming lineup!

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@gaganbiyani A clear sign we're onto something! Love to see the data support our conviction in cohorts

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

Proud of what our small but mighty product team shipped in 2023!

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

Our product team is 8 people (5 engineers, 2 designers and a product manager). Here's just a few of the features we launched this year...

AI-generated recommendations
Instructor self serve
Lead magnets
Alumni referrals
Affiliate links
Maven labs
Student onboarding
Cohort launch campaign
Event reminders
2-step checkout
Trending courses
Email defaults
Lead magnet on CLP
Attribution data
Native lesson editor
Pre-course module
Completion tracking
Lifecycle emails
Bulk purchases
Notification email design
AI landing page
Google rich results
Mobile courses grid
Homepage topics
Email click tracking
High-volume emails
Category pages
Student home nav
School pages
Promo codes
Project channels
Connected reviews
5-star rating display
Free syllabus preview
Add to calendar
Connected syllabus
Mid-course survey
Course analytics
CLP brand logos
Native recordings
Import syllabus
Transfer course
Recs on blog pages
New course cards

….lots more to come in 2024!

P.S. We're hiring a few more engineers and one product marketer!

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@shreyans___ @gaganbiyani @cheers2wisdom Starts with having a powerhouse team!

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@gaganbiyani I love launches like this because they unlock a new canvas for instructor creativity. Already seeing many inspiring and unexpected ways that instructors blend sync and async learning!

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

Today's a big day for anyone who wants to learn how to use AI.

I'm proud to announce Maven’s AI vertical. Practical, live, cohort-based courses taught by true experts in their field.

Here’s our vision for how you can use Maven to get you up to speed on AI 👇

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

Excited to be growing the design team at @MavenHQ!

[Yuan 源 @theyuanstudio]

We're hiring at @MavenHQ !

Looking for a seasoned product designer passionate about building the university of the future.

🧵More about this role:

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@gaganbiyani @MavenHQ Huge day! Excited for instructors to try this out.

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

✨ Big news: After 2 years of private beta and hundreds of hours of engineering work…

Previously, teaching on Maven was invite-only. That changes today.

Now, anyone can use @MavenHQ’s course builder!

Check it out—it’s free to get started.

[Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao]

Two years ago, if you wanted to build a course, you needed to be an:

- Expert
- Teacher
- Video editor
- Community manager
- Experienced marketer

Today, with Maven you mainly need to be an expert.

Here are 6 instructors & how you can turn your knowledge into a course:

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

@josephjconnor @WithOdyssey_ Big milestone! Congrats Joe!

[Jackie Bavaro @jackiebo]

I'm super excited that my Product Strategy course is featured in Maven's Marketplace launch!

I've really enjoyed being part of the Maven community. From a product perspective, here are some things I think they do well:

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

"Kahoot! at Work used in 97% of Fortune 500 companies for corporate learning and engagement; Kahoot! at School used by ~9 million teachers in the classroom"

Wow. Can't think of many other products with that penetration in K-12 *and* enterprise. Kudos to Kahoot!

[General Atlantic @generalatlantic]

@Kahoot is focused on improving lifelong learning with its unique portfolio of brands that sits at the intersection of digital learning and audience engagement. GA is proud to partner with Kahoot! as they strive to engage more users across their work, home, and school markets.

[Rishin Banker 🏛 @rishbank]

This is a striking stat: "Only 35% of those who quit in the past two years took a new job in the same industry". Highlighting a new era of lifelong learning + reskilling.

[Anne Lee Skates @anneleeskates]

Over the past decade, $20B has been invested into US edtech, yet only 3 companies have gone public: @Coursera, @Duolingo, @Udemy. Many have written off the space.

🔥take: we are entering the decade of the “Learning Economy,” which spans way beyond traditional education. More🔽