Nikhil Gaur

Co-Founder

Delhi, India7 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Scaled ARR by 10x in a year.
Built communities with over 30,000 active users.
Developed standardized placement modules improving rates by 30%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Growth Strategist in the EdTech sector with expertise in community building and partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth StrategyPartnership DevelopmentCommunity Growth

Other Skills

PartnershipsSales - B2B/B2CStrategy & GTMUser AcquisitionMarketing/Brand PositioningSales OperationsTrainingCurriculum DevelopmentCommunity BuildingLead GenerationB2B PartnershipsMarketing CampaignsCommunity ManagementMarketingGrowth Management

About

0 to 1, 1 to 10. Built and scaled categories! All things growth. Built a venture in the Ed-tech Space > Developed MVP, failed at the GTM stage > Worked @Camp K12/Kraftshala across a 2 year stint: 1. Built and scaled communities (30,000+ active users in India, 3000+ active users in UAE/Dubai). 2. Scaled ARR by 10x working at the Founder's Office. 3. Worked at critical pieces aligning to the business(Partnerships, Sales - B2B/B2C, Strategy & GTM, User Acquisition, Marketing/Brand Positioning). Went on to pursue my MBA @Master's Union. Started my 2nd stint at entrepreneurship. Present stage: Building HiveSchool - India's First Sales School 🚀

Experience

Hiveschool

Founder

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

5000+ B-schools in India
Less than 50 B-schools are able to get their students placed (~1%)
Building a new-age business school towards the future of Indian Business education. With placements averaging at 17 LPA (at par with Top 30 Indian B-Schools presently), aim is to be one of India's Top 20 Business Schools before 2030.
Going strong!

Kraftshala

Founder’s Office | Growth & Strategic Partnerships

Dec 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Delhi, India · Hybrid

Placed 500+ folks in entry level marketing roles across 80+ companies over a span of 18 months.
> Scaled ARR from 3.5x in 1 year by working with the founder directly on partner acquisition and retention
> Streamlined end to end process for the Recruiter Partnerships team – TOFU Outreach & Sales Operations
> Delivered 40% of company’s revenue (Jan 21’ – March 23’) acquiring 80+ accounts, managing 150+ accounts
> Acquired agency side clients accounting to 60% of company’s ARR (GroupM, Dentsu, Merkle, Publicis, M&C Saatchi)
> Standardized placement preparation modules to optimize placements rate by 30% for the cohort
> Optimized partner outreach & TOFU to scale acquisition by 120% leading to an average 275% revenue growth

PartnershipsSales - B2B/B2CStrategy & GTMUser AcquisitionMarketing/Brand PositioningGrowth Strategy+1

Camp k12

Growth - Community & Partnerships

May 2021 – Dec 2021 · 7 mos · Delhi, India

Worked on 1x to 10x Community Expansion in Indian Market-space.
Managed Top of the Funnel Organic Lead Generation from existing community base.
Lead B2B partnerships with schools & student activity centres - India & UAE Market
Conducted C-Level meetings with schools and activity centres for strategic alliance.
Lead Community Building Initiative for the UAE Market-space- 0x to 1x.
Lead Organic Growth & Marketing campaigns for community expansion- Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Discord.
Managed end to end Lead Lifecycle- from organic lead gen to final conversion.

Community BuildingLead GenerationB2B PartnershipsMarketing CampaignsCommunity GrowthPartnership Development

Teenedge_india

Co-Founder: Managed Growth, Partnerships & Marketing

Apr 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

TeenEdge India is an initiative that aims at bridging the gap between the College Students & Corporates.
Built and lead a team of 10+ members pre-covid.
Lead end to end Organic Community Growth & Marketing.
Lead B2B Partnerships- Govt. Institutions/Colleges/NGO’s/Corporates.
Conducted C-Level meetings for strategic alliance.
Built product pipeline & organic growth funnel.
Built strong business model & operational framework for offline market-space.

Growth ManagementPartnershipsMarketingGrowth StrategyPartnership Development