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WhiteHat Jr: The founder of India’s most controversial ed-tech startup on what went wrong
An interview with CEO Karan Bajaj. Karan Bajaj, the CEO of WhiteHat Jr.
Two-year-old coding-for-kids startup WhiteHat Jr became all the rage in India last year when it launched a multimillion-dollar advertising blitzkrieg, flooding television screens and digital media. It was hard to miss the commercials, some of which claimed the company’s students – some as young as six – were being chased by global investors and bagging jobs at Google because of the skills they had acquired through WhiteHat Jr classes.
The campaign was a big success: WhiteHat Jr said its revenue run rate – extrapolating an annual revenue figure based on one month’s actual revenue – ballooned from just $75 million in June to $220 million in August. That same month, the company solidified its status as a startup success story when it was acquired by India’s largest ed-tech unicorn, Byju’s, for $300
February 04 2021
With the high penetration rate of internet among the Indian populace and through the increasing ease of accessibility to smart phones, there has been a substantial rise in online gaming in India.
A recent
Business Standard article estimated that gaming apps registered an average user increase of 40-50% during the first half of 2020. The number of gamers are projected to further grow from 320 million to 470 million over the next two years.
As a general rule, platforms that offer ‘games of skill’, as opposed to ‘games of chance’, are permitted to operate, accept bets and allow consumers to play with real money. A court ruling in 2017 on Dream11, an Indian fantasy sports platform offering a ‘game of skill’, provided a boost for the validity of online gaming platforms.
Whitehat Jr to foray into Brazil and Mexico; create 1 lakh teaching jobs in India in 3 years
WhatHat Jr, which is testing the waters in Brazil and Mexico with local teachers and students, has signed up 100 schools and plans to ramp up to 1,000 in the next few months, CEO Karan Bajaj says.
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Online coding school for young kids,
WhiteHat Jr will foray into non-English speaking countries of Brazil and Mexico as part of a worldwide expansion, launch math classes, and hire one lakh women teachers in the next three years as it puts behind unsavoury events to
refocus on core philosophy and growth.
Whitehat Jr plans to create 1 lakh teaching jobs for women in India in 3 years livemint.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from livemint.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.