Adesuwa Omoruan is dubbed the "queen of selfies" by her siblings. She confesses to taking more selfies than regulars photographs. When Adesuwa Omoruan was a child, she never thought or imagined herself becoming a broadcaster; it was the last thing she ever thought of becoming. As far as she was concerned, the lifestyle of reporters was not up to par with the kind of life she wanted, as the young dreamer that she was at the time. She wanted a life that was rich and full of the best life could offer, although she wasn't seeking a life that was necessarily flamboyant. "I just felt that journalist were not paid enough... My idea of a journalist wasn't just working at that time. Sometimes they looked very stressed, very few of them had cars... Growing up, I had this picture of what I wanted to be in life..." She had wanted to become a banker! As a child, she had taken trips to the bank with her mother on several occasions to cash-in her moth...
How A Millennial Entrepreneur Built A Learning Platform With A $134m Valuation- Forbes Original Content
Source: Teachable.com Want to get paid to teach an online course in cake decorating, feng shui or how to fly a drone? Increasingly, instructors are turning to Teachable , a New York-based startup run by Ankur Nagpal, 29. Most of Teachable’s teacher-customers pay $99 a month to use the company’s software platform, where they can upload videos, communicate with students and collect course fees. Founded in 2014, Teachable is growing fast. Last year it processed $90 million in course fees and banked $7.5 million in revenue. This year Nagpal says it’s on track to more than double those numbers, and he expects to be profitable by the end of 2018. “Right now, we’re close to a $13 million revenue run rate,” he says. Today he announced a $4 million funding round at a $134 million valuation, bringing Teachable’s total capital invested to $12.5 million. The firm has 64 employees. At a time when people can learn almost anything from a YouTube video, Nagpal says many students...