{"id":836282,"date":"2024-07-23T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=836282"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:58:49","slug":"india-ed-tech-firm-byjus-founder-faces-reckoning-as-startup-implodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/23\/india-ed-tech-firm-byjus-founder-faces-reckoning-as-startup-implodes\/","title":{"rendered":"India ed-tech firm Byju\u2019s founder faces reckoning as startup implodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Byju Raveendran, an Indian mathematics whiz who soared from teacher to startup billionaire before his education-technology company imploded this year, now faces his biggest test. <\/p>\n<p>The future of Raveendran\u2019s eponymous Byju\u2019s online coaching firm rests with India\u2019s courts after the country\u2019s biggest startup, once loved by global investors who valued it at $22 billion, crashed below $2 billion in valuation. The 44-year-old founder last week lost control of the company as a tribunal kick-started an insolvency process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byju Raveendran, an Indian mathematics whiz who soared from teacher to startup billionaire before his education-technology company imploded this year, now faces his biggest test. The future of Raveendran\u2019s eponymous Byju\u2019s online coaching firm rests with India\u2019s courts after the country\u2019s biggest startup, once loved by global investors who valued it at $22 billion, crashed below $2 billion in valuation. The 44-year-old founder last week lost control of the company as a tribunal kick-started an insolvency process.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836282","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=836282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}