Byju's

How it happened

Byju's was India's largest edtech company, peaking at a ~$22B valuation in 2022 amid pandemic-era demand for online learning. Aggressive expansion, accounting and governance issues, and debt disputes triggered a steep collapse; investors including BlackRock marked the stake to near zero and Prosus impaired its holding fully, leaving the company in insolvency proceedings. Glassdoor reviews chart the unraveling from inside: a sales floor pushed to hard-sell courses to families who could barely afford them, rolling layoffs every few months, then months of unpaid salaries, provident-fund deposits that never arrived, and final settlements still owed a year or more after staff had left.

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