| Thursday, 14 April 2022 |
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Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],
I’m back after a very, very short trip to the ASU+GSV Summit on education in San Diego. Between several swigs of coffee, someone told me that the 13-year-old summit is the “Coachella” of education conferences. If that’s true, I have a good sense of who the headline act was.
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GSV partner Deborah Quazzo (L) in conversation with Byju’s co-founders Divya Gokulnath (M) and Byju Raveendran (R) |
As Byju’s co-founders Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath glided from one keynote event to another, there was a palpable excitement about Byju’s, the international brand. Murmurs about “the first trillion-dollar edtech” were hard to miss. Questions about impact, sales strategies, loan frauds were decidedly muted.
The insatiable appetite for the “Byju’s story” is a reflection of what’s truly possible in the tech age of education: a global edtech company, zoomed into local needs and wants, zooming out to create a global empire. Raveendran’s own US$400 million bet on his company, say experts and detractors, is a big push towards this goal.
