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WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Here are the investors in the parent company, byjus: https://byjus.com/our-investors/ Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Tencent, Sequoia Capital India, Sofina, Verlinvest, Owl Ventures, Naspers Ventures and others.

I find it interesting they're all turning a blind eye to very obvious problematic behaviour!

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They are the biggest scam in India capitalizing on FOMO of Indian parents. They charge heaftily (more than $2000) to teach app development (using Scratch, Firebase etc.). Their staff is poorly paid and just reads off scripts. Their staff doesn't know even the basics of CS (as evidenced in this video: https://youtu.be/1Y21eSn_zSM?t=64 , when the student asks how files are stored in Cloud Storage, she says the files ar…

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What is WhiteHat JR? It teaches coding to kids of age 6 charging upto 1500$ for 100 clases. To sum up, this is very high amount from any standar, parents take loan to fund this. Second, they use black hat marketing tactics claiming 10year old student now earns million of dollars. I'm not sure if there tactics are even legal. Platforms like FB, Google should fact-check on ads. Seriously how can you believe a kid is ea…

And they are charging $1500 just to read out scripts along with freely available code.org tutorials

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What is WhiteHat JR? It teaches coding to kids of age 6 charging upto 1500$ for 100 clases. To sum up, this is very high amount from any standar, parents take loan to fund this. Second, they use black hat marketing tactics claiming 10year old student now earns million of dollars. I'm not sure if there tactics are even legal. Platforms like FB, Google should fact-check on ads. Seriously how can you believe a kid is ea…

I know a 12yo Indian kid who is maintaining Ubuntu Unity. Though, I am pretty sure he didn't study at WhiteHatJr.

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What is WhiteHat JR? It teaches coding to kids of age 6 charging upto 1500$ for 100 clases. To sum up, this is very high amount from any standar, parents take loan to fund this. Second, they use black hat marketing tactics claiming 10year old student now earns million of dollars. I'm not sure if there tactics are even legal. Platforms like FB, Google should fact-check on ads. Seriously how can you believe a kid is ea…

See the CEO talking on slack about creating an app: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jyt7et/whitehatjr_fi...

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This is a lot worse than it looks. https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr/status/1330455721897443329/p... Shame on Whitehatjr and on Byju's. This is outright fraud.

Owned by Disney.

Apparently, Disney created a joint venture with Bjyu's for pre school kids.
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