{"id":896629,"date":"2025-01-17T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=896629"},"modified":"2025-01-17T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:00:20","slug":"downfall-of-byjus-india-s-hot-edutech-startup-wipes-out-us-debtholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/17\/downfall-of-byjus-india-s-hot-edutech-startup-wipes-out-us-debtholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Downfall of Byju&#8217;s, India&#8217; s hot edutech startup, wipes out US debtholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wall Street, it was an easy sell: The most valuable startup in India\u2019s history, a tech company with Silicon Valley cachet, a charismatic founder and visions of dominating the online-education business that seemed sure to be one of the post-pandemic\u2019s next big things.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Think &amp; Learn Pvt \u2014 more widely known as Byju\u2019s \u2014 was willing to pay handsomely to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars in the US just as the world\u2019s central banks were holding interest rates at next to nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wall Street, it was an easy sell: The most valuable startup in India\u2019s history, a tech company with Silicon Valley cachet, a charismatic founder and visions of dominating the online-education business that seemed sure to be one of the post-pandemic\u2019s next big things. More importantly, Think &amp; Learn Pvt \u2014 more widely known as Byju\u2019s \u2014 was willing to pay handsomely to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars in the US just as the world\u2019s central banks were holding interest rates at next to nothing.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896629","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=896629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}