GoGee8 has rapidly grown into a multilingual learning platform with a mission to make quality education accessible to every child. Womenpreneur sat down with CEO Tasnim Anwar to discuss leadership, growth, innovation, and what’s next for the company.
Womenpreneur: A reported $130 million valuation so early in GoGee8’s journey could easily have changed the trajectory of a founder’s thinking. Did it change yours?
Tasnim: I don’t think it changed my thinking, it reinforced it.
Of course, I was proud. As a founder, having your company associated with a $130 million valuation just six months after launch is an incredible vote of confidence. But I also understood that a valuation isn’t an achievement in itself. It’s an expectation. It’s the market saying, “We believe you can build something extraordinary.”
But the feeling didn’t last very long.
The next morning, I still had the same product to build, the same students to serve, and the same challenges to solve. The valuation didn’t write a single line of code, create a lesson, or help a student. We still had to do that.
What changed wasn’t my confidence, it was my sense of responsibility.
Womenpreneur: Building thousands of lessons sounds like an enormous undertaking.
Tasnim: It was.
Every lesson starts with curriculum experts, then scripting, storyboarding, filming, animation, editing, voiceovers, and quality assurance. People see the final five-minute lesson. They don’t see the hundreds of hours behind it.
But we believe every child deserves world-class educational content, regardless of where they live.
Womenpreneur: As sisters and co-founders, how do your roles complement each other in building GoGee8?
Tasnim: Fahbin is the visionary and the brain behind GoGee8. She has an extraordinary ability to see opportunities long before the rest of us do and to challenge conventional thinking. But the reality is, GoGee8 is only a very small part of what she does. She runs multiple businesses and ventures, so she isn’t involved in the day-to-day management.
She sets the vision, and once that vision is clear, my role begins. I lead the execution, building the team, creating the systems, managing the operations, and ensuring every idea is delivered with the quality and excellence we’ve envisioned.
Womenpreneur: GoGee8 has evolved into a truly multilingual learning platform. What’s the biggest challenge in expanding educational content into multiple languages and regions?
Tasnim: We’re adding seven new languages right now and that’s actually the easy part.
Every lesson has to feel like it was made for that child, in that place. A maths problem that works in New York might not make sense in rural Kenya. A story about snow may mean nothing to a child in Indonesia.
So we adapt everything, examples, references, humour, even how questions are asked without ever compromising the learning itself.
It takes educators, linguists, and local creatives working together, often debating the smallest details. It’s challenging, but when it clicks, the lesson feels like it truly belongs.
And that’s the reward: seeing children learn in their own language, especially in places that have never had access to those resources before.
Seven languages. Seven cultures. A lot of work but completely worth it.
It’s never really about the numbers. It’s about the faces.
Womenpreneur: Where do you see GoGee8 in five years?
Tasnim: In five years, I see GoGee8 becoming the trusted education content partner for governments, NGOs, schools, and education providers across the world. But our ambition goes far beyond creating lessons.
We want to build learning experiences that spark curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and equip children with the skills they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
If GoGee8 can help make quality education more accessible, engaging, and impactful for millions of learners, then we’ll know we’ve fulfilled our mission.
Womenpreneur: You also own a tennis company. How did that come about?
Tasnim: Honestly, it happened by accident.
My nephew was a world-ranked junior tennis player, and like many people, we assumed he’d turn professional. But he made a very mature decision to pursue academics instead, focusing on investment and finance.
As a family, it was emotional watching him say goodbye to the professional circuit because tennis had been such a big part of our lives.
We weren’t ready to let go of that world, so we decided to keep a small part of it alive by acquiring a tennis academy. That’s really how it all began.
Today, we’re incredibly fortunate to have one of the world’s leading ATP coaches, Vinicius Oliveira, leading our tennis programme. He splits his time between Dubai and Mallorca, bringing world-class expertise to our players.
We’re also beginning to explore opportunities to expand our presence into Saudi Arabia. What began as a way of keeping our family’s connection to tennis alive has evolved into a business dedicated to developing the next generation of talent. In many ways, it’s driven by the same purpose as GoGee8 creating opportunities for young people to realise their full potential.
