Byju Raveendran

Byju Raveendran (born 1981)[2] is an Indian entrepreneur who is the founder of BYJU’s.[3] He founded BYJU’s in 2011. he has a net worth of 1.9 B.[4][5] He is currently in the list of top 100 billionaires of India and has a ranking of 72nd. He started byjus tablet in 2012 and further releasing his app in 2015 which got 2 million users in first 2 months of release. He was named to Fortune Magazine's 2020 '40 Under 40' list under the technology category.[2]

Byju Raveendran
Born
Azhikode, Kannur district, Kerala, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationFounder of Byju's
Net worth US$ 3.05 billion (Combined with Divya Gokulnath)[1]

Early life

He was born in 1981 in the Azhikode[6] village of Kerala, India. He studied at a Malayalam medium school where both his parents were teachers.[7]In his initial life he worked as a service engineer in a multinational shipping firm. He scored 100 percentile in the CAT examination. He started taking classes and initially, he used to give them a free trial of 1 week and later charged them a fee if they liked it. He eventually grew from a classroom to an auditorium. He later founded Byju's and continued to operate as a CEO. He was also recently added to the startup advisory panel as a non-official member along with Kunal Bahl.[8]

References
  1. "Byju Raveendran & family". Forbes.
  2. "Byju Raveendran | 2020 40 under 40 in Tech". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  3. Raghunathan, Anu. "How Byju Raveendran Built A $5.5 Billion Business With His EdTech Startup". Forbes.
  4. "How eight students helped Byju Raveendran build his multi-crore edtech business - The unicorn in the garden". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  5. Majumdar, Sourav (14 September 2017). "Byju Raveendran: The sharp, canny teacher-entrepreneur". Forbes India. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  6. "Byju's education app: A CAT topper who didn't fancy IIMs is making self-learning cool among Indian students — Quartz India". qz.com. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  7. "Teacher, entrepreneur: The success story of Byju Raveendran".
  8. "Byju Raveendran, Kunal Bahl named to startup advisory panel". The Siasat Daily. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2021-01-19.


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