{"id":1029148,"date":"2026-08-17T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029148"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:24:58","slug":"we-will-slow-offline-expansion-focus-on-profitability-physicswallahs-prateek-maheshwari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/we-will-slow-offline-expansion-focus-on-profitability-physicswallahs-prateek-maheshwari\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will slow offline expansion, focus on profitability\u2019: PhysicsWallah\u2019s Prateek Maheshwari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhysicsWallah\u2019s Q1 FY27 revenue growth was driven largely by higher revenue per student rather than enrolment growth. Revenue from operations rose 24% to Rs 1,054 crore, while net loss narrowed to Rs 88 crore from Rs 127 crore. Paid users grew 2.4% to 2.49 million, with NEET\u2019s cancelled and re-conducted examination affecting enrolment cycles. Co-founder Prateek Maheshwari, in an interview with Anees Hussain, discusses the slower pace of offline expansion, the pause in K-12 offline plans and the company\u2019s AI roadmap. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhysicsWallah\u2019s Q1 FY27 revenue growth was driven largely by higher revenue per student rather than enrolment growth. Revenue from operations rose 24% to Rs 1,054 crore, while net loss narrowed to Rs 88 crore from Rs 127 crore. Paid users grew 2.4% to 2.49 million, with NEET\u2019s cancelled and re-conducted examination affecting enrolment cycles. Co-founder Prateek Maheshwari, in an interview with Anees Hussain, discusses the slower pace of offline expansion, the pause in K-12 offline plans and the company\u2019s AI roadmap. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029166,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029148\/revisions\/1029166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}