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What HN saysHN links it for its WhiteHat Jr exposé and Byju's coverage, and commenters want the article preserved before it is taken down.
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- 1India’s WhiteHat Jr is startup hell5 people · 31 points · first shared 2020 · 4 comments on HN
- 2India's WhiteHat Jr is startup hell2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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- 8Think editing is a waste of time? Think again1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 9Byjus 2020 21 financials show its a house of cards1 people · first shared 2022
- 10Byjus is in the throes of a working capital crisis1 people · first shared 2022
- 11Did pmo get its way on indias controversial new it rules1 people · first shared 2021
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captn3m0 · 2022-12-16
Byju, one of Softbank’s flagship investments in India ($22B valuation at peak) is in a similar place. $290M worth of payments are pending to just AWS and a there’s a $1.2B loan left hanging.
https://themorningcontext.com/internet/byjus-is-in-the-throes-of-a-wor…
webmobdev · 2022-09-18
Another one in India seems to be on this trajectory too:
Byju’s has no answer for its growing list of missing deadlines - https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/07/byjus-blackstone-oxshott-sumeru-ipo-…
Byju’s losses swell to Rs 4,588 crore in delayed FY21 results - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/byjus-readjusts-rev…
Byju’s 2020-21 financials show it’s a house of cards. Record losses, declining revenue in key markets and questionable accounting practices paint a grim picture of India’s largest edtech company. - https://www.themorningcontext.com/internet/byjus-2020-21-financials-sh…
lovelearning · 2021-07-06
This is either misinformation or disinformation.
This set of new rules did not undergo legislative scrutiny at all. In fact, this is the main objection of multiple legal petitions about its constitutionality. Search for "IT rules 2021 ultra vires".
Two departments specifically advised the government that a new law was necessary. They were ignored. https://themorningcontext.com/chaos/did-pmo-get-its-way-on-indias-cont…
bigfoot99 · 2020-11-24
Can someone please record this somewhere before it’s taken down permanently: https://themorningcontext.com/internet/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-he…
essdas · 2020-11-22
The truth is much worse than this suggests: This recent article in The Morning Context gives a lot more detail as to why this company is absolutely unethical: https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell/ [Requires sign in to read unfortunately]
WhiteHat Jr. is the sleaziest company to emerge from India's start-up ecosystem. They have used underhanded and unethical means to take down fair criticism online. They have used misleading and outright false advertising to sell their product to parents.
I can only hope that people wake up to how evil this company is.
_pythonlover_ · 2020-11-22
Another article on WhitehatJr
https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell/
(behind paywall)
ankit219 · 2020-11-22
WhiteHat Jr. abuses the DMCA and copyright policies to take down accounts and content. There was this article [1] where they detailed it really well (its a long article and requires login)
> It seems that fairly early on, WhiteHat Jr figured out that it can create temporary nuisance for everyone by reporting their video as a copyright or trademark infringement. Which is why after say, 15-30 days, several of Poonia’s videos were reinstated, after having been taken down.
[1] https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell/