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It’s clearly a dumb gimmick for a dumb and gimmicky country.


It’s a way to “keep to code monkeys happy” that doesn’t involve paying them more or actually making them happy.


Lmao no what a clown show company.


Communication.


Time for a promotion!


Absolutely nothing. (In best case scenarios.) They’re the lowest IQ people in the org, so let’s put them in charge. “Which company do you work for? A major one.”

Sadly this seems universal in Big Tech.


The incompetence level in the industry has increased. In the past perhaps more people were close to being technical. Now there is a deluge of nontechnical positions and management layers that contribute nothing. This increases cynicism.


It just works and is closer to programming than writing god awful html.


Yes just make up something to fill the time.


$22B to $0 for what should have been a high margin business is bad. What’s the story here?


One very concise answer is market for Byju's paid online education is about 2 order of magnitude smaller than projected to investors.

It is for simple reason that paying capacity of average Indian customers is much lower than west and ton of cheaper options are already available for this kind of thing.

Detailed reasons are of course bad management, underhanded sales tactics, burnout, online vs classroom education, scaling too fast etc..etc.


High margin why?


Their online pre-recorded courses cost 1000s of dollars.


I can imagine that's never going to work.

Very few people can afford it, and those who can afford want more, e.g. Q&A, graded assignments etc. It's almost never a "record these once and we are done" thing.


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