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Varun Garg Quits Edtech Unicorn upGrad, Joins Nandan Nilekani’s EkStep

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Varun Garg, the President of Learning Experience at upGrad, has departed from the edtech company after 7.5 years. His exit comes nearly 10 months after upGrad's CEO, Arjun Mohan, also left the company. Garg has joined EkStep, a nonprofit organization founded by Nandan Nilekani, focused on providing learning opportunities to students through a collaborative platform. Kshitij Jain, Raj Reddy, Abhishek Agarwal, and Ashish Nagar will take over Garg's responsibilities at upGrad, according to the company's co-founder and MD, Mayank Kumar.