“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you survived,” Byju’s co-founder and CEO Byju Raveendran mentioned to the corporate’s staff in a year-end inner e mail, reflecting on a 12 months throughout which the edtech large used to be embroiled in some primary controversies.
“You may not even ensure, whether or not the hurricane is actually over. But something is bound. When you return out of the hurricane, you will not be the similar one who walked in. That’s what this hurricane’s all about,” wrote Raveendran. according to mint, The entrepreneur, 42, was quoting a passage from the novel Kafka on the Shore, authored by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.
The mail came just days after Byju’s vehemently denied allegations it purchased databases of its students. In November, it’s signed Argentine football legend Lionel Messi as its maiden global ambassador. The move, however, attracted criticism as the edtech firm had announced, just days before, that it would slash its 50,000-strong workforce by 5%, by March 2023, to lower costs.
On Messi, who recently became a world champion for the first time in his glittering career, leading Argentina to its third world title and the first since 1986, Raveendran wrote that the decision to rope in the footballer ‘worked out well’ for the 35- year-old.
“A little bit of faith at every step, and a lifetime of learning – this is the not-so-secret formula of his (Messi’s) success. There’s a lot for us to learn from him and we’re privileged to be able to,” he wrote.
Letting pass of staff used to be the ‘maximum painful’ determination of his existence, in step with the Kerala local, who, on the other hand, defended the verdict, declaring that it used to be important because of the ‘present macroeconomic local weather and the mixing of the corporate’s bought trade. ‘