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= Varun Mayya =

Varun Mayya (born 22 February 1993) is an entrepreneur, neuroeconomist, computer scientist, and author. He is the CEO and co-founder of Avalon Meta.

He is the co-author of the bestselling book 'Pyjama Profit'. His other work includes 'Negotiate like an Avalonian'.

Career
 Jobspire 

After having run SIZR, a development services agency on oDesk, Varun and his college friends Kartik, Mohak and Sandesh started Jobspire- an end to end online job recruitment platform which provided solutions like sourcing, matching, decision making for Indian startups.

They raised 262k USD through a seed round funding led by Purvi Capital.[2] In early 2017, New York-based interviewing platform JustCode acquired them for an undisclosed amount.

 Avalon labs 

Avalon Labs was a hybrid venture studio founded by Varun Mayya and Shashank Udupa which provided technology services and also invested 50k-100k USD in every startup they worked with. Some of which are The Mana Network, CalmIndia, Enkidu blockchain, and Linkhero.

 Avalon Meta 

Avalon Meta was founded by Varun Mayya, Shashank Udupa, and Abhinav Arora. Avalon Meta describes itself as 'The World's First Digital University' and contains free courses in the fields of finance, marketing, coding, sales, design, etc., many of which are taught by the founders themselves. It currently has a student community of 45000 members whose goals are to advance in career and help others in learning new skills along the way.

Books
 Pyjama Profit 

Pyjama Profit is an amazon bestseller written by Varun Mayya and Abhinav Chhikara and published by Bloomsbury. It talks about developing in-demand online skills to get started with a sustainable career in freelancing.

 Negotiate like an Avalonian 

In this book, Varun talks about negotiation and why it is an important real-world skill and further talks about negotiation techniques and how they apply to domains ranging from real estate to software.

Awards and Recognition
 The Entrepreneur's Educational Influencer 2020 

Varun was awarded the Educational Influencer of the year award by The Entrepreneur in 2020.