What is the 1/5 year vision for Taro/Taro Roadmap

Love this, it'll be a good thing to read in a few years to see what actually happens :)

I'll start by saying that we definitely have a vision of what should exist in the world, but we're constantly adapting this based on user feedback and societal/tech changes. That means that deviating from the below is not a sign of failure, it just means that we learned something!

• 1-year vision: Taro is the premier destination for career advancement, with a deep catalog of on-demand video courses taught by the best technologists in the world. We also offer engineers a pathway to relevant, high-credibility jobs.
• 5-year vision: Taro is the premier destination for career advancement across the world, including disciplines beyond software engineering. We help every job function within a tech company (eng, PM, design, management, sales, etc) to become more confident and impactful. We've built the best community + course platform for folks in tech, becoming an integral part for both promotion and job changes.

Also interesting to see how Taro's value prop has evolved over time:

• "How can I get the most out of Taro Premium?" - 9/7/2022
• Taro at YC's Demo Day (Summer 2022)

Very concretely:

• 1 year: Taro has a very full course catalogue complete with learning tracks (i.e. if you have this career goal, take these courses in this order to accomplish it). I want course tests to be fully integrated (finally) alongside more courses from people who aren't Rahul and myself (lol)
• 5 years: Taro's course catalogue has expanded to other functions outside of SWE like engineering managers, product managers, product designers, data scientists, and more (maybe even technical recruiter too!)

Outside of courses, it's hard to tell where to invest. I think the discussion forum could use a lot more work, but it's hard to compete with Blind/Reddit. Events are naturally hard to scale, especially with quality control (and EventBrite isn't that big a company). We're working on a job board right now, but we don't know where that will go, so I'm hesitant to even include it in 1 year vision.