{"id":974962,"date":"2025-11-19T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974962"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:36:12","slug":"physicswallahs-rs-31000-cr-story-why-alakh-pandey-thrived-and-byjus-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/19\/physicswallahs-rs-31000-cr-story-why-alakh-pandey-thrived-and-byjus-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"PhysicsWallah\u2019s Rs 31,000 cr story: Why Alakh Pandey thrived and Byju\u2019s didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech company PhysicsWallah Ltd\u2019s listing is one of the sector\u2019s most telling turnarounds. It\u2019s a business that is rising amongst many that didn\u2019t. PhysicsWallah is entering the public market with a valuation of Rs 31,170 crore, while the industry\u2019s former poster child, BYJU\u2019S, faces insolvency proceedings and regulatory action. On the eve of PhysicsWallah\u2019s biggest show, Byju\u2019s issued a media statement over the fund siphoning allegations. <\/p>\n<p>But before we delve into comparing the fortunes of two edtech giants of India, let\u2019s start from where it all began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech company PhysicsWallah Ltd\u2019s listing is one of the sector\u2019s most telling turnarounds. It\u2019s a business that is rising amongst many that didn\u2019t. PhysicsWallah is entering the public market with a valuation of Rs 31,170 crore, while the industry\u2019s former poster child, BYJU\u2019S, faces insolvency proceedings and regulatory action. On the eve of PhysicsWallah\u2019s biggest show, Byju\u2019s issued a media statement over the fund siphoning allegations. But before we delve into comparing the fortunes of two edtech giants of India, let\u2019s start from where it all began.<\/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-974962","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\/974962","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=974962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}