Such a pathetic practice from a company that just got a boatload of money to throw at any criticism.
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#22Very recently this startup WhiteHat Jr. was acquired for $300M by another EdTech startup Byju (valuation: $11B!).
Byju is known to be very aggressive in sales and marketing.. and they have been controversial.
https://www.moneylife.in/article/criticism-of-top-marketing-...
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#23Very recently this startup WhiteHat Jr. was acquired for $300M by another EdTech startup Byju (valuation: $11B!). Byju is known to be very aggressive in sales and marketing.. and they have been controversial. https://www.moneylife.in/article/criticism-of-top-marketing-...
How does byjus have that valuation? That seems a little too much.
Is there something shody going on here? Their financial report says they are profitable since last year.
This probably explains it a little: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/ifjh95/ho...
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#24Poonia’s videos take on various claims that WhiteHat Jr has made. For instance, WHJ advertises a certain child called ‘Wolf Gupta’, who, after learning to code with the firm, got a job at Google that pays in crores. Poonia points out in his video that Wolf Gupta’s age keeps changing across advertisements, from nine to 14, as does his salary package—from Rs1.2 crore to Rs20 crore to Rs150 crore. They're A/B testing an…
Weird name to go with in the first place.
Trendy english sounding names are getting popular in India.
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#27Very recently this startup WhiteHat Jr. was acquired for $300M by another EdTech startup Byju (valuation: $11B!). Byju is known to be very aggressive in sales and marketing.. and they have been controversial. https://www.moneylife.in/article/criticism-of-top-marketing-...
How does byjus have that valuation? That seems a little too much. Is there something shody going on here? Their financial report says they are profitable since last year. This probably explains it a little: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/ifjh95/ho...
Note that Byju's reported revenue in 2019 was $78M, so we are looking at a multiplier of around 140! Probably nothing shady though, just VCs being VCs, hoping to unload this on the public through an IPO, make their money and get out.
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#29this is such bs. i have kids in immediate family and have taught them scratch and html and some other stuff. granted they are only 8-12, they enjoy doing things. one of them is a 4 year old kid who can now fully start his "own laptop", start file manager and run his favorite cartoon episode and endlessly play "Gcompris". this kid can't read anything more than "ABC" but can operate a pc just nice.
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#30God knows how their FB ads are being approved. They have faces of Unicorn startup CEO or Founders like bill gates, elon musk, etc.