Byju’s Was a Slow Train Wreck, Visible to All but Its VCs

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  • Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
  • In March 2022, Byju’s, with a valuation of US$22bn, established by a US$800mn (million) fund-raise, was India’s most valuable start-up, despite declaring a loss of Rs4,588 crore for the year ended 31 March 2021. Things have gone downhill since then and even though the signs were always there, the Venture Capitalists invested in Byjus somehow missed it all. Watch this week’s video as Sucheta Dalal, takes a deeper look to examine where you things have gone wrong with Byjus.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 508

  • @akaalkripal5724
    @akaalkripal5724 Рік тому +303

    Byju's has swallowed more capital than the Delhi Mumbai expressway, or the Mumbai Ahmedabad bullet train!

    • @sanketm1663
      @sanketm1663 Рік тому +19

      atleast it went towards the employees rather than politicians and tender contractors pockets.

    • @debasheesh
      @debasheesh Рік тому +63

      ​@@sanketm1663a lot of it went into unnecessary acquisitions and to celebs such as SRK and Messi
      Hell Messi was declared ambassador around the same time as firing hundreds of employees

    • @arunsar7893
      @arunsar7893 Рік тому +7

      Private capital!!.. That's the magic word.

    • @ramyasri6093
      @ramyasri6093 Рік тому +2

      @@arunsar7893 true

    • @ramyasri6093
      @ramyasri6093 Рік тому +2

      That's news to me

  • @sujalgarewal2685
    @sujalgarewal2685 Рік тому +46

    A cousin of mine who runs a startup says, "The moment we read Byju's on a salesperson's resume, we reject him. Because we know he has been trained to overpromise and will ruin our reputation." I've heard such statements from way too many people.

    • @VivekAnandJ
      @VivekAnandJ Рік тому +2

      One of my ex employees actually resigned from Byjus within 2 months since they forced Sales people to do such unethical things! They should be taken to court and jailed!

    • @Banzybanz
      @Banzybanz Рік тому +6

      That's a bit harsh on the salespersons who were merely following orders from above, and might have quit quickly when they realised it wasn't worth it. Maybe the experience actually taught them something.

    • @sujalgarewal2685
      @sujalgarewal2685 Рік тому +4

      @@Banzybanz They are apparently trained that way. They know no other way to sell.

    • @Banzybanz
      @Banzybanz Рік тому +4

      @@sujalgarewal2685 They are humans, not machines. They can learn better ways to sell. That's on those who will be training them.

    • @sujalgarewal2685
      @sujalgarewal2685 Рік тому +6

      @@Banzybanz There's a cost associated with training new employees. Not every company is in a position to do so.

  • @parikshitsharda4377
    @parikshitsharda4377 Рік тому +62

    Whenever a CEO has to come out and say that "Things will get better", that is when you know the company is bust.

  • @golmatol6537
    @golmatol6537 Рік тому +7

    To me ... any company that ropes in top celebrities as brand ambassadors & spends 90% of their budget on marketing means it's definitely trying to compensate for lack of inherent strengths & customer-value in its business model.

  • @tamal
    @tamal Рік тому +112

    Meanwhile, we the mango people, were bombarded with SMSs and emails to file ITR, but Byju's are cool without finalizing accounts for years.

    • @zenneosen1
      @zenneosen1 Рік тому +15

      If we try to rationalize the things which happen in India related to the problems we mango people face. You won't be able to live

    • @hinteriors389
      @hinteriors389 Рік тому +3

      🤣i am still getting the messages after having filed them a month ago! Poor mango people. They are also bombarded by phone calls from politicians fighting an election.

    • @hinteriors389
      @hinteriors389 Рік тому +2

      @@regalnutrition9117 "ye kuch zyada hi ho gaya".🤣but i understand your sentiments.

    • @TapanPaul-d7r
      @TapanPaul-d7r Рік тому +2

      Omg 😲

    • @TapanPaul-d7r
      @TapanPaul-d7r Рік тому +2

      ​@@hinteriors389omg

  • @itsScrappyJoe
    @itsScrappyJoe Рік тому +172

    For Byju's family it was an earning opportunity while for others it was a "learning" opportunity 😅

    • @bubulmallick846
      @bubulmallick846 Рік тому +2

      Tablet Story of Bihar Muzaffarpur is Very True 😂

    • @its_master_Roshi_Fkrs
      @its_master_Roshi_Fkrs Рік тому

      Ofc other startups will commit to more planning strategy along with marketing (I'll tell you somebody will enroll to any online classes perhaps to byjus itself and will get good classes and slowly try to bring it back or some other companies will come up based on byjus failures) others failures is like a lesson for you🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

  • @ranademilind83
    @ranademilind83 Рік тому +36

    Sucheta has nailed it, what she is trying to convey is if somehow Byjus would have managed to keep everything under carpet and managed to list they all would have been happy. But moment they saw all govt agencies in sherlock holmes mode they packed bag and ran away

  • @Naps56
    @Naps56 Рік тому +82

    What does India's education Ministry have to say about this? China banned such online Degree Bazaars in 2022.

    • @praveengupta6395
      @praveengupta6395 Рік тому +8

      China has different thoughts on banning these ...as they wanted to keep the education cost cheaper at home to let people have more kids

    • @praveengupta6395
      @praveengupta6395 Рік тому +1

      China has different thoughts on banning these ...as they wanted to keep the education cost cheaper at home to let people have more kids

    • @nikhilgatagat
      @nikhilgatagat Рік тому

      But they didn't ban bat eating which is why we got covid

    • @Naps56
      @Naps56 Рік тому +4

      @@praveengupta6395 Appreciate your inputs, but India's response with a new education policy is still critical in view of its massive brain drain, and a coaching bazaar (online or offline) is not a solution to that central issue. Because it has a lot to do with the hugely different trajectories' scale of the two countries - of which India's foreign trade deficit with China is just one indicator.

    • @praveengupta6395
      @praveengupta6395 Рік тому +2

      @@Naps56in Byju case it a purely a operational failure to gain the consumer trust. India's overall growth story is chaotic in the right direction. As a developing country our government should continue praising the start-up. who su

  • @ijustfelldown
    @ijustfelldown Рік тому +10

    That mention of corporate big boys' control on LinkedIn is very important. All I see on LinkedIn is posts telling you to sacrifice everything else in your life to work for "good employers" or very sketchy promotion posts for random startups without disclosing that the poster is being paid to speak well for the company.

  • @abdupallikandam3489
    @abdupallikandam3489 Рік тому +7

    Tens of Thousands of parents smiled😊 when this demon 👿 broken into tears. He came from a humble background but after a point he forgot from he came from

  • @ranjitpal9937
    @ranjitpal9937 Рік тому +9

    BYJUS Too Much Sales Presure Has Led To A FUNNY INCIDENT 😂 In Which A Student Parents From Bihar Thought That BYJUS LEARNING TABLET On Registration 😂 For A Course To Be A MEDICINAL TABLET For His Son For INPROVEMENT In Studies 😅 🤣 😂

  • @AG_MAG
    @AG_MAG Рік тому +23

    Also Whitehat Jr was a big sham, on teaching programming to primary school students and pitching to parents that they will become the next Elon Musks.

    • @loukitmyname
      @loukitmyname Рік тому +4

      Also, remember Wolf Gupta. :P

    • @georgecarlinn6288
      @georgecarlinn6288 Рік тому

      Also remember pradeep punia who exposed Karan Bajaj scam called whitehat jr programming for six year old 😂😂😂

  • @rajeevrp1500
    @rajeevrp1500 Рік тому +26

    This is what invariably happens when you try to grow too big too fast. Success cannot be achieved overnight, you have to work through it step by step.
    Byju Ravindran is a great teacher, some of my colleagues have attended his classes when he himself used to coach in Bangalore about a decade ago for competitive exams like CAT etc, but then this happened.

    • @FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb
      @FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb Рік тому +1

      He must have laid down the principles of the company

    • @niranjanbalu6817
      @niranjanbalu6817 Рік тому

      Bullshit Flipkart grew at incredible speed as well.
      Byjus have a cultural problem it became a product selling company instead of education service company

    • @HarkiratSaluja
      @HarkiratSaluja Рік тому

      It’s not about growing big too fast but have the unethical mindset. Every action and behavior is a scam

  • @arj123sub
    @arj123sub Рік тому +21

    Very nicely explained. Thanks - the greed - at all levels is a spin off at every level.
    Hire IITians - fresh from college - who r in to make a quick buck. And trade for a career.
    Scare and sell to every parent who expects online solutions to substitute for parenting responsibilities.
    Byjus ended up killing the semi urban class room tuition players like Deeksha Academy who were supporting children who could not access metro based coaching.

  • @agytjax
    @agytjax Рік тому +38

    It is better that companies like Byju's fall and perish now than later. It will serve two purposes - karma for its founder's greed and secondly it would save unsuspecting retail investors, like the ones who invested in Paytm, from having their investments wiped out !
    What is even more surprising is that Indian govt's ministry of commerce has still not initiated any punitive action them. But I am not surprised. This guy, Byju, can stoop to any level to sneak his way out !

    • @fi1158
      @fi1158 Рік тому

      You are right in what you've written, but if it crashes entirely, many employees will lose their livelihood, we can't wish that!

    • @84dhanreddy
      @84dhanreddy Рік тому

      @@fi1158That’s ok. They’ll find another job. Trust me despite popular belief there are plenty of jobs available out there for people with skills.

    • @FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb
      @FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb Рік тому +1

      ^ whatever they have earned.. they must start investing in small businesses. That's the only way.

    • @jayakrishnanjayasanker
      @jayakrishnanjayasanker Рік тому +3

      @@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb byju has atleast 200 million stashed somewhere and he is going to lead a better life than vijay mallya.

  • @KSS8517
    @KSS8517 Рік тому +57

    Byju's is an insult to all school teachers. That's how they marketed their brand. Their Counsellors kept telling that school coaching will not be enough to score good marks. They say to parents " School teachers are not doing a good job. Byju's is a must if your children have to get into IITs blah blah blah." Even the marketing personnel had it tough while working there. They were given strict monthly targets to bring students to Byju's. Working there was hell. So yeah, like the vlogger says, there was all round failure.
    Byju's, in the end, was nothing but home tuitions on a grand scale. Pity SRK and Mohanlal. They barked up the wrong tree in endorsing this home tuition outfit.

    • @main_stream_media_is_a_joke
      @main_stream_media_is_a_joke Рік тому

      Why pity the superstars.....they got their fat paycheck to push a product.
      All over the world it's the same story....get some popular celebrities to endorse your product and rope in the gullible fools who fall for the celebrity endorsement.
      If anyone takes the word of the mostly uneducated "celebrities" to make their purchasing descision, the blame is on themselves for all the eventual fallout.

    • @legendarylegend8791
      @legendarylegend8791 Рік тому +4

      Its true. Before edtech boom we used to blame the education industry for not teaching the things properly as we are not able to visualise things that teacher say and in the K10 segment most of the teachers are not qualified enough to teach us in most of the schools. Byjus does not say you will get into IIT's for sure, it says you will fall in love with the education as they teach things in a proper manner so we will not fear of asking doubts. How many of us fear asking doubts in a regular class because of some teacher's attituted that is being solved by byjus. Before blaming anything atleast use the product

    • @vikramadoddamani
      @vikramadoddamani Рік тому +1

      But nobody questions the celebrities now. How confidently they used to market the brand 😅 it’s similar to IIPM. Just eyewash, all fancy stuff, nothing real 😒

    • @hema_raghu
      @hema_raghu Рік тому +2

      ​@@vikramadoddamaniIIPM pales in comparison. He atleast employed most of his 'graduates'.. it's a different story that others wouldn't 😂

    • @main_stream_media_is_a_joke
      @main_stream_media_is_a_joke Рік тому +2

      @@legendarylegend8791 Yes...the teachers inability to make the subject interesting for the student is a good point.
      But a child afraid to ask questions to elders/higher ups is a society wide problem.

  • @bubulmallick846
    @bubulmallick846 Рік тому +7

    Sad Fun Real Stories Of BYJUS Presure Saleing Result BYJUS Education Table to Medicine Tablet 😂 😂

  • @rahuls7039
    @rahuls7039 Рік тому +14

    Madam,
    It was great to hear from you. A balanced and optimistic view of the events happening surrounding BYJU.
    And the ending note was great and positive, that disasters happen globally as well. It is not a matter of place. Liked it.

  • @bubulmallick846
    @bubulmallick846 Рік тому +5

    Fun But Sad 😂 Tablet Views

  • @saurabhsaroha5141
    @saurabhsaroha5141 Рік тому +35

    Mam, I have great respect for you for the work you are doing to financialy educate people. May God bless you with long, healthy and prosperous life.

    • @TapanPal-o7y
      @TapanPal-o7y Рік тому

      Funny thing in Bihar Muzaffarpur And UP Of byjus Education Tablet Though to Be Medical Tablet by Student Parents 😅😅😅😅

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      True that. But my only objection is that again we are witnessing the MEDIA TRIAL of a great Indian Startup. We should all pray that Byju's comes out of the woods. Byju Raveendran is not a cheat. Period

    • @vishweshwermangalapalli3137
      @vishweshwermangalapalli3137 Рік тому

      @@ppsen7346 : Spoken like a true Hindu..... When things get screwed up and wilfully mismanaged... PRAY !! BTW I have another startup idea.... we can start a company that organises group 'prayers' as a service..... wanna fund?

  • @ftckaplan213
    @ftckaplan213 Рік тому +6

    Unrealistic targets, customer pressurization are all symptoms of a lack of natural demand.
    Demand creation requires lateral thinking, product innovations and supported by good marketing

    • @lotuslotus8207
      @lotuslotus8207 Рік тому

      Bimari Parents in Muzaffarpur Thought BYJUS LEARNING TABLET as 💊 TABLET for their Children 😂 😅

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      when one is working with Loan Sharks from USA, pressure is automatically created. Byju's made a fine product and have huge study mat banks from 2012. Problem is that the long term invest ors are showing their true color now and pressurizing the Byju's people to return the money. Is that possible for a start up???? the other problem is that enrolments in institution all over the world is going south. This was not predicted post-pandemic. There will be "natural demand" (as you put it), very shortly and I am sure about that

  • @rajesh_624
    @rajesh_624 Рік тому +5

    I used byju for my son..waste of money. But it was hardsell -very well done psychology - by the sales team.

  • @arunkottolli
    @arunkottolli Рік тому +35

    I knew BYJU’s was a fraud when they hired Shah Rukh Khan for marketing!

    • @sreenii5445
      @sreenii5445 Рік тому +6

      They should have hired feku instead or even you

    • @arunkottolli
      @arunkottolli Рік тому

      @@sreenii5445 Best marketing is done with actual customer results!
      Fraudulent companies often resort to shortcuts. Anyone who uses Bollywood actors to promote their product is resorting to shortcuts and I don’t trust such companies.

    • @videoabhishek
      @videoabhishek Рік тому +2

      @@sreenii5445 Feku was on Paytm ads post-demonetisation though 😂

  • @hemantmarathe1590
    @hemantmarathe1590 Рік тому +18

    Very well written. Very well explained. Great job.

  • @lakshminarayananneelakanda4037

    Byjus offered me a sales job back in 2015. Thank god I didn't take it. I wanted them to succeed so much.

    • @MCBC_5
      @MCBC_5 Рік тому

      U mean fail ..

  • @user-pm4pl5hh9m
    @user-pm4pl5hh9m Рік тому +5

    This brings up some fundamental issues:
    1. Performance. The Indian VC-funded startup ecosystem has not performed - there are no exits of note, almost no venture is profitable, but still get funded multiple rounds. The pride of India having "100+ Unicorns" sounds hollow. Why?
    2. Reputation. Let's be clear: the VCs, despite all their high falutin' backgrounds, are certainly no gods. They have failed, and continue to fail miserably. If they were on the senior leadership team at any top company they would have been fired a long time ago. The excuse that the venture industry makes calculated bets and some perform above average, the bulk of them fail, and a very tiny few become winners doesn't wash. Especially when in many cases either the business model was weak, the governance poor, or execution mediocre. You don't fund multiple rounds to such ventures and this could have been the brakes the companies needed. VCs need some other kind of statutory regulation to have them release their internal adverse notes or have the company required to open these just as with their audits.
    3. Repetition. There is a repetition of the same story across multiple ventures from different industry segments: Housing, Zilingo, GoMechanic, etc etc. Why?
    4. Basics. Everyone has climbed on to the VC-funded idea - incubators, accelerators, etc. Time to slow things down. There is a crying need to educate entrepreneurs about "back to basics". Revenue growth with profitability even if slow and consistent. In substituting valuation for profitability - that VCs are guilty of - we have made unsustainable business models sexy.
    5. Governance. This needs a complete revisit by government, government agencies, audit partners, professionals, and lay public. LinkedIn should admit that it was utterly wrong and reverse the suspension of Dr. Aniruddh Malpani (whom I used to read and enjoy). A failure in governance indicates that the underlying values in the founders, in the ventures they started, and in the larger ecosystem that preferred conformist eulogy, was absent or weak. Integrity should be paramount, not a lip service.

    • @stkstk9118
      @stkstk9118 Рік тому

      Byjus learning Tablet was Thought To Be Medical Tablet in Bihar Muzaffarpur is AMAZING 😂

    • @plant_leaf
      @plant_leaf Рік тому

      Well said bro

  • @lotuslotus8207
    @lotuslotus8207 Рік тому +5

    Byjus Tablet is Being Dreamed As Medicine Tablet in Bihar and UP Town 😂 ❤ 😅

  • @rahulkarmakar6563
    @rahulkarmakar6563 Рік тому +5

    At what point are we going to see Byju come out and say stuff like, “this is an attack on India” ?

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      your comment is in poor taste my friend. Indian start-up like Byju will change the ambition of Indian Entrepreneurs and force them to think global scales. We should be proud of Byju's. We dont know what problem they are facing from Loan Sharks from USA who want a board seat and control. India is a huge coaching market (just JEE coaching will be close toRs40k crore market which is bigger than the automobile market of India.

    • @rocabraham
      @rocabraham Рік тому

      @@ppsen7346 Keep dreaming.

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      @@rocabraham no problem Bro. What else will u do when news is not coming? I am a positive person!
      Half truth is better than imagination

    • @rocabraham
      @rocabraham Рік тому

      @@ppsen7346 The auditors, the analysts, the ED, the courts - they were all “imagining” ?

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      What u know, is what i kno also (fake media news who believe sensation for advertisement).
      Okay , maybe I know a little extra, being part of th education sector, but I do not have any validated info so i will keep quiet.
      For now I can say that the Peak XV, Chan Zuckerberg etc. are all maligning Byju like hell. India is happy hunting ground for punters. That is a thing of the past. USA moneylenders will not have easy control of Indian companies and make huge gains.
      As a fellow Indian I can tell u, what u witnessed in Amazon Vs Big Bazar Group (Future) is repeating itself. Future group went bankrupt as Amazon squeezed the breath out of them for greed. Byju is in great danger I can tell u that. I prefer to keep quiet for now as I know as much as you know.

  • @loukitmyname
    @loukitmyname Рік тому +10

    Yeah, VCs care about money, Byju's just wanted a high valuation. Neither wanted to create a good company or a good product. Well, it was bound to happen, the bubble will burst eventually.

  • @alokarora2367
    @alokarora2367 Рік тому +2

    Bob Dylan's prophetic lyrics:
    Are they lost or are they found?
    Have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down
    All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
    There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend

  • @UzairJSherwani
    @UzairJSherwani Рік тому +3

    I'd love to go through that bookshelf at the back! ♥

  • @akaalkripal5724
    @akaalkripal5724 Рік тому +31

    Not every Malayali schoolteacher can be a good CEO. Time to draw the line.

    • @GaneshKumar-bv2td
      @GaneshKumar-bv2td Рік тому

      ​@@DJVOOZy8xfacts

    • @keyboardwarrior4381
      @keyboardwarrior4381 Рік тому +11

      Only Gujju petrol pump attendants!

    • @MK-lh3xd
      @MK-lh3xd Рік тому +9

      Uncalled for. It has nothing to do with being a malayali or a school teacher.

    • @nirmal886
      @nirmal886 Рік тому

      Could have been successful in selling bakery products

    • @cliff311976
      @cliff311976 Рік тому

      Or a tea seller in a railway station😅

  • @123xyzabccba
    @123xyzabccba Рік тому +2

    Byju was trying to Grow instead of trying to Succeed …

  • @nikhileshkulkarni9786
    @nikhileshkulkarni9786 Рік тому +3

    Every sentence that Sucheta madam says has a lot of value in practical life. Thanks madam for posting this case study .

    • @wennwenn1422
      @wennwenn1422 Рік тому

      "Byju’s Was a Slow Train Wreck, Visible to All but Its VCs" - No one ever came out with a case study before their downfall but now everyone could see it. What a load of bullshit title 😂

    • @nikhileshkulkarni9786
      @nikhileshkulkarni9786 Рік тому

      @wennwenn1422 some famous people like Dr Malpani tried to highlight the Byjus malpractices , they got their social media accounts suspended . Some ordinary people also have got court cases registered by Byjus against them ,demanding compensation in crores for putting their views about Byjus on social media . Clearly Byjus was run by a bunch of goons who had nothing to do with education .

  • @diva7892
    @diva7892 Рік тому +1

    Superb & succinct analysis ms.dalal .... In a bit of time, the byju saga unraveled👌👍

  • @candida120878
    @candida120878 Рік тому +1

    You forgot they acquired gradeup too

  • @rgnandanshetty2950
    @rgnandanshetty2950 Рік тому +18

    companies like byjus is a good example that, investors can also be fooled….they clearly have a BS management and promoters who don't have right intentions and deserve nothing….it would be nice if they just shut their shop instead of causing more damage to their investors and gullible parents

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      its the other way around.
      Byju's here seems to be the victim of loan sharks from USA who want control of T&L (the Byju's firm name is Think & Learn). this video distorts a lot of facts and is highly biased with their own concepts which are far from right. Please do your own research.

    • @rgnandanshetty2950
      @rgnandanshetty2950 Рік тому

      @@ppsen7346 then this should be the case for every single VC funded startups and not specific to byjus, either way the blame has to go to founders for being gullible or incompetent….may be this part is missing in your research!

  • @5tyyu
    @5tyyu Рік тому

    Investing in India is a huge headache for foreign companies. My cousin came with 1 million dollars. But he got fed up with bureaucracy, gst hassles, coudnt rent office due to gst requirement of insisting landlords have gst nmbr, paperwork, licenses, complex tax structure, ROC Company registration etc. He went back to USA.

  • @anandmohan4657
    @anandmohan4657 Рік тому +8

    Question is why no authority is exercising its whip on byju even for non filing of annual financial accounts with mca.

    • @84dhanreddy
      @84dhanreddy Рік тому +1

      Multiple reasons. Letting such a big employer fail is bad for the employees, parents and students who are part of Byju’s. Secondly the image of the startup ecosystem in India will be tarnished and foreign investors may become wary.

    • @reddyprahlad
      @reddyprahlad Рік тому

      ​@@84dhanreddyemployees who stay even after seeing the crooked unethical practices from the inside, but still stay will definitely need to suffer. Shitty place to work, shitty practices.

  • @slamcan2k
    @slamcan2k Рік тому +6

    Another disaster in wsiting is Cred. Will be worse than Byju, since they dont even have a business model. Its merely a game of invedtor musical chairs

    • @bnd99999
      @bnd99999 Рік тому

      What Model u got 🤣..langoor

  • @TrackEngineersMumbai
    @TrackEngineersMumbai Рік тому +7

    Our children started questioning how our business growth are so slow. How these companies growth are at lightning speed. And concluded old style and many more conclusions. Groups like TATA and birla took generation to make businesses of sizeable turnover.
    Quick and easy money comes and goes much faster way. That's the life .Hope we understand scams are always around us in different forms like harshad mehata and kingfisher. But not to come in their shadow require much deeper understanding.

    • @bnd99999
      @bnd99999 Рік тому +3

      Tata birla were running drug business for Britishers opium Trade that's how unethical they were.. instead of spouting bs read up on Opium Trade and it's beneficiaries..no wonder then Tata supported jinnah and were in British camp

    • @bnd99999
      @bnd99999 Рік тому +1

      Not harshad Mehta,scam of Ex PM PVNR ...lol even after tons of research papers u say scam of Harshad Mehta grow up child

    • @84dhanreddy
      @84dhanreddy Рік тому

      Kingfisher was not a scam. Yes, they defaulted on loans but they never scammed anyone. They just went into losses. There are plenty of companies and normal people who fail to pay their loans because of genuine reasons. You think all of them are scammers?

    • @bnd99999
      @bnd99999 Рік тому +1

      @@84dhanreddy diversion of funds into unrelated business and siphoning off the money from the books by Mallaya,it's a scam

    • @FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb
      @FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb Рік тому

      Whatever be the past, the TATA have been honest and one of the most employment generating people in India. So we need to hand it to them. Let's accept all aspects of reality. Their food and the bad. You can't remove tata from modern day India .

  • @z00011001
    @z00011001 Рік тому +1

    Was it just "advertisement driven growth" and nothing on the ground?

  • @Ananthvenkat01
    @Ananthvenkat01 Рік тому +1

    Biju should conduct a corporate governance course !

  • @lothalopolis
    @lothalopolis Рік тому +1

    Your questioning VCs is valid. Byju's and them are birds of the same feather. VCs are just abandoning ship now. No sympathy for anyone, who ruined lives of innocent parents and students. Karma caught up, just a bit late.

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      VC business is all about litigations. They make more money wrangling necks of Indian Startups and taking over their companies for a song . Hope you followed the Amazon Future legal battle? For a small equity participation from Amazon, Future Grp got into a legal tussle, and went bankrupt in need of capital.

  • @nanjappakuttaiah870
    @nanjappakuttaiah870 Рік тому +8

    Well researched and superbly articulated, a wake-up call to foolish VCs and get rich entrepreneurs...may your tribe of red flaggers grow...

    • @sureshkishore
      @sureshkishore Рік тому +1

      Most Foolish VCs mint money by fooling the public and entrepreneurs

  • @jyotivig3666
    @jyotivig3666 Рік тому +1

    The government needs to distance itself from promoting startups without looking at the health of their balance sheets and create an appropriate regulatory environment, protect consumer and investor rights and penalize companies that commit fraud. The Minister should be embarassed.

  • @devshetty7465
    @devshetty7465 Рік тому +2

    I can't believe edtech they valued as billions of dollar. Edtech not a market

  • @sandeepverma8872
    @sandeepverma8872 Рік тому +1

    Same like PayTM .. I attended their session with my Son and was amazed to See their so called Get Together , it was all in the Air .. Big Talks .. Courses are too expensive .. They were doing Push Sales rather then Pull Sales and they were suppose to Crash.

  • @bulbulpaul2881
    @bulbulpaul2881 Рік тому +1

    Is Byjus educational Tablet after Enrollment is Being Viewed As Medicinal Tablets 😮 😮 in Bihar

  • @ecoideazventures6417
    @ecoideazventures6417 Рік тому +1

    Finally justice to all those vloggers and bloggers who raised an issue and got trolled by Byjus!

  • @alkoxy
    @alkoxy Рік тому +4

    Business ethics and standard practices are thrown out in the name of "startup culture" and all this is pushed forward by greed on the part of startup founders and VCs. It's high time startup founders take business practices seriously and not just focus on growth on paper to raise funding.

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      and also, stay away frm predatory firms (like Bjyu's has fallen in trap of US loan sharks) when startups are negotiating the funds arrangements, they need to wary . This is the second debacle I am seeing after amazon future fight of what can happen when u take money with tough unrealistic terms.

  • @ngshashidhar
    @ngshashidhar Рік тому +3

    Great insight and lessons for any leader! Even bullshit can take you to the top but won’t let you stay there for a long time

  • @hinteriors389
    @hinteriors389 Рік тому +2

    A very balanced perspective. Thank you for making this video.

  • @ranabhaumik4964
    @ranabhaumik4964 Рік тому +1

    Education and Genius WITHOUT Humility, Greed and Hubris is the right recipe for Sustainability, Growth and Public Good.......This probably is the cause for this downfall and the unravelling of disasters of unimaginable proportions....rather than "BY BYJUs" it has become "BYE BYJUs"...it was a self made crisis.....

  • @srinivaschillara4023
    @srinivaschillara4023 Рік тому

    well put. Sucheta Dalal has persented this in a very lucid, straight forward, but deep manner.

  • @gurusastropalmistry2214
    @gurusastropalmistry2214 Рік тому +5

    NCPCR Govt of India took action ONLY after Byjus refused to pay the BJP. He was accused of paying the Congress in Karnataka. Thats when the so called Govt which ideally should have raided Byjus way back in 2021 (ED-CBI!!), came to the rescue of common Indian citizens who were ripped off by this scammer

  • @hotelcalifornia715
    @hotelcalifornia715 Рік тому

    This very good analysis with sensible choice of words without haughtiness ending with a positive note.

  • @BangaloreAviation
    @BangaloreAviation Рік тому

    Hindsight is always 20/20. Never read anything in the media.

  • @mathnik5
    @mathnik5 Рік тому

    I have witnessed this quite often - whenever VCs enter a startup, the startup has not option but to become ruthless. Sometimes its ruthless cost cutting and layoffs, and other times its the pressure to grow. Its like making a deal with the devil. All the VCs want is to raise the valuation and off load it to someone else. They dont care about the founder or the business.

  • @arunanarayan6177
    @arunanarayan6177 Рік тому

    Well presented Maam.
    I subscribed. Im in awe of good Speakers always.
    I really loved the way you just coolly went through this topic....and beautifully.
    Want to hear more from you.

  • @bunkoti
    @bunkoti Рік тому +1

    So well-presented that I watched it twice

  • @mr.kieren270
    @mr.kieren270 Рік тому +1

    They said they had a customized course for my 5 year old to shape his future.. 😂😂.

  • @sidharthsankar7483
    @sidharthsankar7483 Рік тому

    Very nice summary, Ms. Sucheta Dalal.

  • @maverickcruise
    @maverickcruise Рік тому

    How many employees and families were brought to tears. Now the company founder is in tears. 0 sympathy for him and his company.

  • @zacthomas77
    @zacthomas77 Рік тому

    How do we know there weren’t any kickbacks involved? Throwing money behind bad money.

  • @eddyssingh
    @eddyssingh Рік тому

    Very nice video ma'am, very well articulated 🙏

  • @pramodpatil5336
    @pramodpatil5336 Рік тому

    Best way to assess value of a company is by studying its financial statements. It is paradoxical that a loss making company continues to enjoy exorbitant valuation without any justification. For Byju’s it is case of total mismanagement. Initially, the promoter might have lured investors by selling big dreams. But the crucial questions are how the funds were spent, what is the turnover and what is the profit. If accounts are not finalized even after a serious lapse of time then that company is worthless. The moot question is who values the company and how the valuation is arrived- the fraud exists at this point. Investors should be beware of such fraudulent methods.

  • @sreenii5445
    @sreenii5445 Рік тому +2

    Today that chap Byju is crying like those children and their parents cried after getting fooled into buying his dubious app and getting into financial trouble. His parents are also to be blamed for despite being teachers themselves made this profession a marketing third rate game

  • @adityashah4708
    @adityashah4708 Рік тому +1

    Problems of VC are that if they speak against or challange the promoter, and promoter leave or relationship turn sour, then who will take the responsibility of the Company. VC can't manage the day to day operations. Now-a-days, in such companies, the calls are taken by the promoters and mostly not by VC. Because of the greed of high perks pursuant to achievement of milestones the founders / promoters uses such radical tactics. Promoter / founders keep such activities in grey in front of VC, and they don't tell VC complete fact and VC also don't bother to ask them either. Secondly this might also be a case for roles, responsibility and accountability of ID in case of unlisted entities.

  • @00mpa1oomp4
    @00mpa1oomp4 Рік тому +4

    Watching Byju's failure is glorious!!!

  • @himanshudewaskar5141
    @himanshudewaskar5141 Рік тому +1

    When a education tutior company sponsors Cricket its clear sign of eyeball rather than quality

  • @dhoomketu731
    @dhoomketu731 Рік тому

    The OG finance journalist! You're rockstar ma'am :)

  • @PradeepPakhare
    @PradeepPakhare Рік тому

    Very good analysis, Sucheta madam. 👍👍

  • @cedricdias8764
    @cedricdias8764 Рік тому +1

    The other thing is, whatever may happen now, the founders of Biju’s would have made enough and more money that they could ever make, had they not done all that they did. That’s the sad reality of these so called valuation businesses. It’s all just a plain ole scam.

  • @hema_raghu
    @hema_raghu Рік тому +1

    All rapidly expanding stars implode

    • @A0A4ful
      @A0A4ful Рік тому

      😊As quantum physics explain.
      And was quoted in 'Oppenheimer ' !

  • @raamcaash
    @raamcaash Рік тому +5

    Why don’t you talk about ex McKinsey folks being behind most of these VC’s

    • @increasingsun
      @increasingsun Рік тому

      Bro it’s not just the brand it’s the people. Most of these high profile people which are from iim or iit, get into big jobs just by names and theories in head. These are easily swayed because they run on structures and theories but sadly not on practical’s. They do as told but do not think anything more than scope given to them. Hence if somebody asks these morons to give $25billion valuation, they’ll twist numbers and give it.
      hence because of such brand power, only ivy leagues sit on top and do not think about anything else. Numerous parents, poor people where put into debt to get these fuckers classes, while investors enjoyed the cake at top.
      Companies do not have practical people at top, it’s ivy leagues running behind theories sitting on top. We Indians do not think, hence we are not able to create anything more than copy paste companies (If khan academy had been valued its much more than BYJU, still that dude is doing noble service) and we are outsourced back end which funny way wee r famous for.

  • @MCBC_5
    @MCBC_5 Рік тому

    always wondered why anyone will pay for this when everything is free on YT

  • @JG-qy6fe
    @JG-qy6fe Рік тому

    xijinping's Ccp also invested in several indian companies, including byju's. Worth Looking deeper in to this

  • @bubulmallick846
    @bubulmallick846 Рік тому +1

    Good Indeepth Analysis 👍👍 Hope For Another Follow Up On BYJUS And Akash Story Unfolding With TIME 👍

  • @smruti93rsa
    @smruti93rsa Рік тому

    Sahara sponsored Indian cricket team and failed.
    Byju's also sponsored Indian cricket team and on its way to failure.
    Now you know where dream11 is heading.

  • @jyotivig3666
    @jyotivig3666 Рік тому

    Seeking VC funding is just one aspect of growth. Companies need better financial advice to weather the downturns in the business cycle, CII should open a window to help firms understand market volatility and empower them with tools so they can prevent misrepresentation and maintain financial health.

    • @ppsen7346
      @ppsen7346 Рік тому

      very rightly said and I would like to add to that "better pricing strategy", so that such start-u companies don't "front load" prices to make product unaffordable. There has to be a scientific analysis of "break-even points" and "pricing strategy" to be dovetailed with that.

  • @shaikusman536
    @shaikusman536 Рік тому

    Very Good Analysis .......Pls try to get Byjus version on list of your questions........Respect from Bangalroe....

  • @riaanmathew1285
    @riaanmathew1285 Рік тому

    Madam, how is DIL of Amarsons in Malabar Hills, I guess their store is in Breech Kandy is the auditor of 7 airports sold to Adani????

  • @rohittalwar5602
    @rohittalwar5602 Рік тому +2

    STARTUPS ARE BASICALLY SHADOW BANKS

  • @macdowellandrew
    @macdowellandrew Рік тому

    Blame only Russia Ukraine Conflict. Energy prices went up. Inflation went up, and interest rates spiked. Money shifted back to US Bonds. Venture capitalists lost interest in ventures.

  • @aroopdatta8905
    @aroopdatta8905 Рік тому

    Remembering the #Theranos story …. How all global VCs got fooled time and time again

  • @Thenobelfan
    @Thenobelfan Рік тому +1

    They should not be called decacorns or unicorns - they should be called deca CONS and Uni CONS !

  • @vikeng21
    @vikeng21 Рік тому +2

    Taking something which is offline to online will it work no idea. They should have thought about to somehow change the decades old colonial education system which churns out thousands of engineers who are just not employable. Will it help anyone if the same is being done Online today which was Offline yesterday should have been thought process. Did Byju's change that a big No.

  • @bulbulpaul2881
    @bulbulpaul2881 Рік тому

    Thank U for Explaining Byjus in Details

  • @123xyzabccba
    @123xyzabccba Рік тому

    So long as our Banks are not exposing public money into stories like byjus the common man need not worry….

  • @thehalf-assedapproach
    @thehalf-assedapproach Рік тому +6

    Heard from a former employee that Byju's was not a good place to work at. He cited heavy workloads and underpaid staff. Looking across the spectrum of corporates in the country, this seems to be the norm..

  • @vicky26pen
    @vicky26pen Рік тому

    Any company ethics is important, without ethical practises its nothing.

  • @TheContrariann
    @TheContrariann Рік тому +1

    BYJUS was never a EdTech Company, it was a Marketing and Sales company using "EdTech" to Grab as much money 💰 from desperate Middle Class parents by Deception and Fraud. And the Work Culture was Horrible and Brutal. Playing with parents and children's emotions, and hard earned money - Karma. BYJUS deserves this. I hope it goes bankrupt.
    Speaking from Experience.

    • @tbraghavendran
      @tbraghavendran Рік тому

      Who made videos for them🤔

    • @TheContrariann
      @TheContrariann Рік тому

      @@tbraghavendran Their Slaves

    • @tbraghavendran
      @tbraghavendran Рік тому

      @@TheContrariann does slavery still exists 🙄

    • @TheContrariann
      @TheContrariann Рік тому

      @@tbraghavendran Only a stupid person who’s never worked in Corporate world would ask such a question

  • @Vikrammundra
    @Vikrammundra Рік тому

    Nearly 20 min video but you still failed to explain why

  • @M20-z4j
    @M20-z4j Рік тому

    I disagree with your conclusion. Byju is equally responsible for the mess. When you sponsor Indian cricket team as part of multi-year deal before investing in your business you know what you are signing up for. Lets not blame the VCs. They invest and expect high return because the risk is high else they would invest in fixed assets.

  • @stkstk9118
    @stkstk9118 Рік тому

    Great Analysis 🍻 Thanking you

  • @deltaranger3530
    @deltaranger3530 Рік тому

    Thank you for this holistic view on the matter

  • @mvjoshi
    @mvjoshi Рік тому +1

    Just soulless, shameless, unmitigated greed. That's it. The bottom line, top line whatever.

  • @saswatab79
    @saswatab79 Рік тому +1

    Startups like these need to understand you can't blindly burn VC cash. You need to have a solid business plan to generate revenue. Byju is a like a door to salesman of private tution. Pestering parents to enroll their children. I had taken a trial and didn't like it's approach. Better off hiring a private tutor.

  • @raj6875
    @raj6875 Рік тому

    It was visible to everybody who used common sense...which alas is scarce now a days. We want complicated "everything".