In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Amar Varma sits down with Candice Faktor, co-founder and CEO of Disco, to discuss her incredible journey from scaling Wattpad from 4 million to 90 million users to revolutionizing online learning in the age of AI.Check out Disco: www.disco.coSign up for a free Mantle account: www.withmantle.com

Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:56 - Candice's Background & Immigration Story03:37 - The Wattpad Journey: 4M to 90M Users07:15 - The "After" Story: Building a $100M Franchise12:29 - Meeting Chris Sukornyk & Starting Disco18:57 - The Problem with Online Learning22:15 - Finding Product-Market Fit29:50 - Remote-First Co-Founder Dynamics34:07 - The Power of Mentorship38:19 - Leadership Lessons43:22 - Fundraising & Cap Table Strategy46:36 - AI's Impact on Disco

"Elon Musk was my first board member. I still have his signed offer letter with his phone number on it."

That's just one story from Nihal Mehta's journey from college entrepreneur to Managing Partner at Eniac Ventures ($500M+ AUM). But the real story is what happened after he lost it all.

Nihal raised over $1M for phillytonight.com in college. Billboards on I-95. MTV commercials. Then it went bankrupt in 2001.

Most people would've quit. Nihal bought his code back for $1,000. That code became ipsh!—the SMS technology that powered American Idol voting and Madonna's mobile campaigns. Eventually acquired by Omnicom. That resilience became the foundation for Eniac Ventures.

Join Mantle's Amar Varma for an incredible conversation with Farhan Thawar, a tech veteran who's been at the forefront of every major wave of innovation over the past three decades. From early days at Waterloo to leading engineering at Shopify, Farhan shares hard-won insights on building world-class products and teams.

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