Unacademy: Helping people turn educators to millions of students

The $117-million start-up gets over 100 million video views a month and has 400,000 daily active users; its promoters have a mission to make it the world's largest online education platform

Gaurav Munjal, the 29-year-old engineer, entrepreneur and founder of education platform Unacademy, loves Quora. He’s active on the Q&A website, dropping his thoughts on productivity, academic subjects, and more recently, entrepreneurship to his now 139,000 followers.

But Quora isn’t the only place he frequents; he’s a compulsive tweeter and regularly publishes blogs on Linkedin and Medium. 

Munjal says he is a heavy user of online platforms and is fascinated by their power to facilitate constructive engagement and disseminate knowledge. 

When he was at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai, where he studied engineering till 2012, he ran a