Shades of Indian Startup Ecosystem: The 2020 Edition
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A lot has happened in Indian startups space in 2020. And it’s time to do a recap!
Every year, I have done 50+ shades, but thanks to our ever decreasing attention span, I am now sticking to 20+ shades for this year.
In no particular order, sharing my perspective /takeaways / rants around all that happened with Indian startups in 2020 and some thoughts on what lies ahead.
If there is one name that made the biggest impact in the Indian startup scene in 2020, my vote goes out to Wolf Gupta.
From being a yogi who sold his Ferrari (i.e. startup) and having exited in 2 years, to now claiming that the ‘kid who got 12 cr salary from Google never existed’ to trying to shut the mouth of critics, the Whitehat team has completed a full circle and stood what Covid-19 stood for, i.e. unpredictably random.
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Inside the rumble in India’s coding jungle
In August, WhiteHat Jr was bought by Byju’s, India’s most valuable education firm, for $300 million in an all-cash deal.
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WhiteHat Jr’s anxiety to create a new market has made it vulnerable to criticism. Can it now maintain growth?
The market for coding is getting crowded. All firms are vying for the same customer base that caps out at 15-20 million. Apart from affordability, another limiting factor is infrastructure
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Earlier this month, Time magazine named its first kid of the year–15-year-old Gitanjali Rao, an Indian-American, for technological achievements, including creating an app and browser extension that use artificial intelligence to detect cyberbullying. Rao is just the kind of person who could feature in the ads of WhiteHat Education Technology Pvt Ltd.
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.
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