{"id":867766,"date":"2024-10-18T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=867766"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T04:27:21","slug":"byju-raveendran-says-he-will-pay-back-lenders-money-people-think-i-ran-away-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/18\/byju-raveendran-says-he-will-pay-back-lenders-money-people-think-i-ran-away-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Byju Raveendran says he will pay back lenders\u2019 money: \u2018People think I ran away but\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Byju Raveendran, the CEO and founder of troubled edtech start-up Byju&#8217;s, has dismissed speculation that he &#8220;ran away&#8221; to Dubai, stating that he intends to return, pay back lenders and revive the brand, Hindustan Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s very unfortunate that people think that I ran to Dubai because I had to&#8230; I came to Dubai for a year for my father&#8217;s treatment, which led to our ongoing stay. But let me be clear, I did not run away,\u201d Raveendran (44), told reporters via virtual press conference. He moved to Dubai in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byju Raveendran, the CEO and founder of troubled edtech start-up Byju&#8217;s, has dismissed speculation that he &#8220;ran away&#8221; to Dubai, stating that he intends to return, pay back lenders and revive the brand, Hindustan Times reported. \u201cIt&#8217;s very unfortunate that people think that I ran to Dubai because I had to&#8230; I came to Dubai for a year for my father&#8217;s treatment, which led to our ongoing stay. But let me be clear, I did not run away,\u201d Raveendran (44), told reporters via virtual press conference. He moved to Dubai in 2023.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867766","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=867766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}