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Leading Guild After a $4.4B Rise: New CEO Bijal Shah Reshaping the Future of Workforce Education

July 10, 2025·42 min·3 clips
Rachel Romer built a $4.4B company, then had a stroke—her emergency plan was to call Bijal Shah.
This episode features Bijal Shah, CEO of Guild Education, discussing her journey from slum development in India to leading a $4.4 billion company after co-founder Rachel Romer's stroke. It explores Guild's mission to provide debt-free education for frontline workers, its pivot to a marketplace model, and insights on leadership, resilience, and scaling in the AI era.

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A succession story grounded in workforce economics and operating detail.

This episode stays with a founder-led company after a major health crisis, and that handoff becomes part of the story rather than a side note.

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If you want the CEO handoff at Guild Education, the $4.4B workforce-education company that helped Walmart cashiers and Disney janitors get college without debt, start here.

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