The co-founder of India's largest edtech company has donned many hats from its outset. Her business acumen notwithstanding, she considers herself as a teacher first.
“Education is one sector where everyone wants to be involved. But this is also a space where most of them [investors] have lost money. There is no benchmark in the space that we could follow.”
The founder and CEO of India’s largest edtech firm Byju’s doesn’t want to be complacent about the company’s growth in the last few years and thinks that there is still a long way to go.
Byju’s is buying Aakash Educational Services for nearly $1 billion, in a bid to enter the test prep space. But will Byju’s succeed and what implications does the deal have for the edtech space?
For the International Women’s Day, we celebrate the 50 women who featured in our Most Powerful Women (MPW) in Business list for the year 2020. Here’s the editor’s letter from that issue.
Every sector responded to Covid-19 in their own way, and a complex part of this response was seen in the education industry. But it stayed resolute, showing that the desire to learn can't be quenched.
