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Liz Egan Builds Companies by Making Marketing Feel Like Something
She learned marketing on the job, helped take Yext public, and still insists the discipline cannot live by dashboards alone. At Chainguard, Liz Egan is putting a company builder’s instinct behind the quiet machinery of secure open source.
Gagan Biyani
Gagan Biyani is a three-time startup founder and serial entrepreneur best known for co-founding Udemy (now a multi-billion dollar public edtech company) and Maven, a cohort-based online learning platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Born and raised in Fremont, California, Biyani studied Economics at UC Berkeley before co-founding Udemy in 2009, which he built to 400,000 students before being fired as president in 2012. He then founded Sprig, a food-delivery startup that raised $57M before shutting down in 2017. He co-founded Maven in 2020 with Wes Kao and Shreyans Bhansali, raising $30M to build the leading platform for live cohort-based expert courses. Biyani is widely known for his radical transparency about startup failures, his viral 2020 Twitter thread about being fired from Udemy, and his philosophy that most startup ideas come from living normally rather than deliberate analysis.