Move comes one day after the edtech company filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court, challenging the acceleration of the $1.2 billion term loan it had raised in November 2021.
India’s largest edtech company, which was valued north of $22 billion in its last funding round, is on course to fire around 1,000 people.
The move will hurt the sales and marketing teams the most at Byju’s. Marketing executives are on third-party payrolls of companies such as Channelplay and Randstad, to name a few. People in the know at these consultancies confirmed layoffs to executives. The last mass layoffs happened in January this year, when the company let go of around 5,000 people across verticals.
As per internal communications, which have been reviewed by The Morning Context, a “BDE removal …
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