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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Ronnie Screwvala has built a decent education business with almost no external help. All that’s needed now is for others to see the value he has created.
It’s a question that has often come up in The Morning Context newsroom in the past year. That’s because for a long time, it seemed like there wasn’t much happening at upGrad. It didn’t help that the media treats fundraising as validation and talks about startups only when they either raise money or run out of it. Even during the education technology frenzy of last year, when anyone who could make a pivot to the sector did and existing players raised money by the bucketload, there was hardly any news from the Worli office of upGrad.
While it certainly did …
Believing education is the key to success, Unacademy raised $880 million and reached a $3.4 billion valuation, only to crash 90%. Its co-founder and CEO gets candid about the state of the startup and Indian edtech.
Physics Wallah’s desperate pursuit of growth has led to another bold announcement. The latest move centres around one of India’s most competitive test-prep pockets.
AI is set to disrupt the sector. While the path ahead looks tough for legacy publishers like S Chand Publishing and Arihant Publications, things don’t look encouraging for others in the industry either.
