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Re:HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, t... by lulznews on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:37PM (#40600192)
$22B to $0 for what should have been a high margin business is bad. What’s the story here?
Re:HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, t... by geodel on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:56PM (#40600395)
One very concise answer is market for Byju's paid online education is about 2 order of magnitude smaller than projected to investors.

It is for simple reason that paying capacity of average Indian customers is much lower than west and ton of cheaper options are already available for this kind of thing.

Detailed reasons are of course bad management, underhanded sales tactics, burnout, online vs classroom education, scaling too fast etc..etc.

Re:HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, t... by gowld on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:43PM (#40600262)
High margin why?
Re:HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, t... by asaddhamani on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:54PM (#40600370)
Their online pre-recorded courses cost 1000s of dollars.
Re:HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, t... by pquki4 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:40PM (#40600875)
I can imagine that's never going to work.

Very few people can afford it, and those who can afford want more, e.g. Q&A, graded assignments etc. It's almost never a "record these once and we are done" thing.