Amid layoffs, continuous churn and uncertainty in the edtech industry, Unacademy’s sole focus on offline could be Munjal’s last throw of the dice.
Shortly after Gaurav Munjal sent a memo to employees announcing a new round of layoffs at Unacademy on 7 November, co-founder and chief technology officer Hemesh Singh called a meeting of the tech team. The air inside the office was thick with anxiety and uncertainty. People were looking at each other with hope and guilt. Hope that it would be the others, not them, on the layoff list, and guilt for feeling that way. Singh needed to calm the nerves in his team if he wanted any work done.
He told them that the layoffs will not impact the tech …
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