EP 162 – Prerna Jhunjhunwala – Founder of Creative Galileo and Little Paddington Preschools – That Encouragement Has Made Me Fearless

by Michael Waitze | Dec 11, 2021

I was more than impressed by Prerna Jhunjhunwala‘s commitment to making education accessible to the masses. Prerna is the Founder of Little Paddington – a highly acclaimed preschool in Singapore and Creative Galileo – a new-age Ed-Tech start-up transforming early learning globally for children from three to ten years. Creative Galileo aims to accelerate a child’s development of early literacy through narrative videos, gamification, and personalised learning journeys.

Some of the topics that Prerna discussed:

Most of Prerna’s childhood was spent in third-tier cities and small villages
She was in the factory every day as a 10 to 12-year-old and the workers would ask her to teach their children English and Math
How and why educating others became so important to her
Realizing at a young age that access to education was a privilege
Starting Little Paddington Preschool when she was 24
The reason for founding Creative Galileo
Understanding the importance of the teacher for 3 to 10-year-olds
Licensing the most popular characters in India and how those characters keep the students engaged
The six learning domains
Creative Galileo’s recently announced capital raise and how she expects to deploy it
The CXXO Program at Kalaari Capital

Other titles we considered for this episode:

It Was Foolish Courage
I Enjoy the Execution Bit of It
When You See the Things You Imagined Happen
Screen Time Is Inevitable Today

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