India’s second largest edtech wants to go back to its roots
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Unacademy confounds me.
Only the second Indian edtech unicorn after Byju’s, 7-year-old Unacademy has a lot to commend it. It’s built an online test-prep business ground up which has about 600,000 paid subscribers, it’s been a talent magnet for the most coveted tutors in the country (by spending exorbitant amounts), and was the first edtech to obsess over the finer design and tech details of its platform.