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Abhishek Kariwal

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Co-founder at opendoor education
📍 Karnataka, India

Abhishek Kariwal is the Co-founder of Opendoor Education, an organization focused on improving student learning. An alumnus of IIT Madras, he is dedicated to transforming education by emphasizing conceptual understanding and critical thinking over rote memorization through innovative products and teaching methods.

Abhishek reflects on his own educational journey, noting how concepts learned deeply, like an equation for bubble dynamics from his engineering days, persist long after others are forgotten. This personal experience seems to fuel his professional mission to create more impactful learning experiences for students.

He fondly remembers a specific equation for bubble dynamics from his engineering studies over 15 years ago, which he uses as an example of true conceptual learning.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Co-founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Karnataka, India
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Topics Abhishek cares about

Critical Thinking
His company's core mission is to teach students essential future skills, focusing on how to ask better questions and become deep, discerning thinkers.
Conceptual Learning
Advocates for teaching methods that go to the 'root of the concept, ' believing this creates more lasting knowledge than simple memorization.
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Career

Work history

3-2013
Co-founder
opendoor education
8-2011 - 3-2013
Assistant Manager
Volvo Penta
5-2010 - 7-2010
Research Intern
Siemens
5-2009 - 7-2009
Intern
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
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Education
2010 - 2011
MTech
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
2006 - 2010
BTech
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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