ABOUT THIS EPISODE
🚀 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗦𝟭𝟰𝗘𝟱 𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘!
𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗱 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗸𝗮𝗿, builder of products that reached millions of Indians on feature phones long before smartphones became common.
Founder who was told he was “an ideas guy who would fail as an entrepreneur”, and still walked away from a stable career to prove otherwise.
𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀, 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁:
• The quiet courage of leaving a secure path when everyone warned him he would fail
• Building English Seekho and Sparsh, some of the earliest mobile learning products in India that generated millions of paid subscriptions on basic feature phones
• Why teaching underprivileged students made him realise English isn’t just a language… for many, it’s identity and confidence
• The long, unglamorous grind of creating affordable learning tools for blue-collar workers, security guards, delivery partners and first-generation learners
• What it really takes to keep building in edtech for two decades while the industry keeps reinventing itself
• The personal moments that tested him far more than any pitch meeting or funding round
This is not a polished success story.
It’s a conversation about the courage to start when the odds look ordinary, to stay when results are slow, and to keep solving real problems for people who rarely get a seat at the table.
🎧 Courage Talks S14E5 – Ninad Vengurlekar is now live.
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