Byju’s, an Indian edtech company, has gone from hero to zero in just two years. Following the pandemic tech boom, the online tutoring business — founded by Byju Raveendran — was India’s most valuable start-up in 2022, worth around $22bn. Its backers included BlackRock, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and even the World Bank’s investment arm. It sponsored the Fifa World Cup in Qatar and India’s illustrious cricket team. But last week, Raveendran said that the company was now in effect “worth zero”. What went wrong?
印度教育科技公司Byju's在短短兩年內(nèi)從大神變成啥也不是。在大流行的科技熱潮之后，這家由Byju Raveendran創(chuàng)辦的在線輔導(dǎo)企業(yè)成為2022年印度最有價值的初創(chuàng)企業(yè)，價值約220億美元。其支持者包括貝萊德、Facebook創(chuàng)始人馬克?扎克伯格，甚至世界銀行的投資部門。它贊助了卡塔爾世界杯足球賽和印度知名板球隊。但上周Raveendran表示，該公司現(xiàn)在實際上“價值為零”。出了什么問題？