The lesson in Byju's rise & fall

Byju’s, once the poster child of India's booming Edtech industry, is now facing significant financial challenges. According to a recent update from the founders, the company has failed to disburse July salaries due to its bank account not being restored to the founders following a supreme court order. This adds to the growing woes of Byju’s, which says its founders infused close to one billion U.S. Dollars crore over the past 2.5 years just to keep the company operational. Byju Raveendran, the face of the troubled Ed tech platform claims he has personally contributed 1,600 crore rupees out of the 3,976 crores paid as employee salaries in the last two years. This financial burden comes after Raveendran sold stakes worth3,600 crore rupees between 2015 and 2022.