Mafia SusTalks # 21 - 'Building An Online Climate School' : w/ Anshuman Bapna

Agenda :

• 10 minutes : A brief introduction of (and by) Anshuman
• 30 minutes : Q&A led by Mafioso + SusMafia Director Ganesh Shankar
• 20 minutes : Open SusMafia Community Q&A

About Anshuman:

Anshuman is the founder of Terra.do, an online climate school with the aim to transition 100M people into climate work. Founded in 2020, Terra runs programs on everything climate - from climatetech investing to regenerative farming - and has graduated hundreds of mid-career individuals from 25+ countries. They range from tech entrepreneurs to reformed oil & gas executives, journalists, policymakers, farmers and activists who have gone on to start climate companies or work at world-class climate organizations.  Anshuman is a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded and sold his first startup (RightHalf.com) while in undergrad at IIT Bombay, seeing it through the first boom & bust on the internet. After his MBA at Stanford, he spent some time selling solar lights in Vietnam and started a non-profit that helped Indian Members of Parliament develop their constituencies. All this while working with Deloitte, then Google in New York. He moved to Bangalore in 2009 to start Mygola.com, a travel planning app that was acquired by MakeMyTrip in 2015, where he was their Chief Product Officer until 2019 when a classic midlife crisis sent him in search for what was truly worth working on. He currently lives in Stanford University where his wife is finishing her PhD. He has two kids, and often finds himself taking climate inspiration (and career advice!) from them these days.