About us
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In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech! And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!
Founder Profile
Arnav Kumar is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets about Product, Business Models and Company Building
Vaibhav Singh is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued >$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience (edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering, product, design)
- Revenue - Deliver on revenue targets for one or multiple BUs (business units
- Talent Management - Build and manage a high-performing inside sales team(hire, coach, grow and retain)
- Sales Process Excellence - Adapt and implement the best global frameworks, practices, and tools to improve sales performance at Leap
- Sales strategy - Figure the right sales motion for Leap (user profiling, value proposition, lead scoring, touchpoints, re-engagement, quality control)
- Product Strategy - Having an independent voice in the evolution of the product a.k.a. Knowing what the user wants and what Leap should offer to the user (offerings, features, value props, pricing, customer success, competitor benchmarking)
- Loves building and managing a high-performing, multi-tiered team of inside sales professionals
- Would have been part of 0->1 journey of a business or a Business Unit (would have seen the evolution of product and sales strategy during the 0->1 stage)
- Would be extremely data-driven
- Would be a ninja at designing and implementing sales processes
- Would have strong first principles and strong user research skills to answer the many WHYs Would be motivated to use the best tools and technologies available to constantly improve the sales teams’ performance
Life @ Leap
Mutual Respect
We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.
Bias for action
We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible
Learn & get better
Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.
Growth mindset
We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.