Ankur Nagpal: Teachable Founder Story — Lessons on Building, Selling, and Starting Over
Post Run High
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ankur Nagpal shares the story of how he founded Teachable and sold the company for $250M.
In this inspiring conversation, Ankur Nagpal opens up about his multicultural upbringing, early love of cricket, and how moving to the U.S. at 17 shaped his entrepreneurial journey. From his first viral Facebook quizzes to founding and selling Teachable for $250M, Ankur shares practical lessons on grit, identity, and building something meaningful. He discusses how America’s culture of risk-taking enabled his success, why unscalable hustle matters, and what comes next after achieving financial freedom. A must-listen for anyone chasing creative or business dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, it's your friend Kate Max and welcome back to Post Run High. |
| 0:08.5 | We talk a lot about building wealth and success, but not enough about what to actually do once you have it. |
| 0:15.9 | Today's guest has built and sold a massive company, made real money, and then had to figure out what comes next. |
| 0:23.5 | Today's episode is with Encore Nagpal. He's the founder of Teachable and someone my husband, |
| 0:28.0 | Jeremy and I have known for a bit now here in New York. The two of them play Padell together, |
| 0:32.7 | and I've always had such great interactions with Encore. So it was really fun to finally get a run in together |
| 0:38.9 | and then sit down to chat after. Encore grew up in Oman with Indian Roots and came to the U.S. |
| 0:44.6 | to study economics at UC Berkeley. While he was there, he started building Facebook apps. Yes, |
| 0:50.1 | the kind that tell you which friend's character you are most like. And before he knew it, |
| 0:55.1 | those apps were making him real money. That early entrepreneurial spark eventually led him to |
| 1:00.7 | found Teachable at just 24 years old, which he went on to sell for about $250 million by the time |
| 1:07.3 | he was 31. Since then, Encore has seen every side of the founder journey, |
| 1:11.7 | from scrappy student projects to major exits, investing, and now continuing to build new |
| 1:16.8 | businesses. But what I loved most about this conversation isn't just Encore success. It's about |
| 1:22.4 | how open and transparent he is about the mindset behind it all. We talked about how his definition of success |
| 1:28.5 | has evolved, what freedom really looks like, |
| 1:31.0 | and what his life is like outside of work. |
| 1:33.6 | I was also pleasantly surprised to find out |
| 1:35.9 | that he is quite the athlete himself, which I semi |
| 1:39.0 | knew from his Piddell skills, but we dive into that |
| 1:42.2 | a bit at the start of our conversation. All right, let's get into it. |
| 1:45.8 | This is Encore on Post Run High. |
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