52: The importance of introspection and the power of peers with Gautam Bhargava

Gautam is the founder of Peeyr.com, a peer education marketplace
that connects top high-school and college students to their peers
for in-person tutoring sessions. He's a high-school dropout on a
mission to create more opportunity within our education system
and help students find their passion. Previously, he launched
satus.org, a "How to Start a Startup" program for young founders
and was a partner at Ankorhem, a product design agency based in
Dallas. He's 19 years old.


Gautam is another Successful Dropout who is changing the way we
educate ourselves. I had an absolute blast chatting with him and
I love the "why" behind everything he does. Everything he's
built, he's built to solve a problem or challenge that he himself
experienced...I think that's the essence of entrepreneurship -
building creative solutions to solve problems, and the best way
to do that is to solve your own problems.


Here are some of the topics we cover in this episode:


Can entrepreneurship be taught?

Gautam cheating on a test and how it changed his life - great
story!

The ridiculousness of teachers unions

Competing in the closed formal education system

Permission versus freedom mentality

The ABSOLUTE importance of introspection, examining your
thoughts and experimenting at an early age

A bunch more!

Resources:

Peeyr.com

Gautam@peeyr.com

Gautam's LinkedIn

Gautam's FB

Satus.org

Sam Altman's "How to Start a Startup"

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