"I'll never sell anything which I won't give to my son": BYJU'S founder Raveendran

Dubai [UAE], May 18 (ANI): Byju Raveendran, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of embattled ed-tech company BYJU'S, said that he would never sell anything to anyone that he wouldn't give to his son.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Byju Raveendran admitted that "mistakes were made" by some salespeople in the company regarding the allegations of rigorous sales techniques used by BYJU's. He added that those mistakes were corrected and the company was involved in selling the "love for learning"
"We were selling love for learning. At the ground level, a few hundred of those tens of thousands of sales guys have made mistakes, but we have corrected them. Teachers, with the kind of urbanization which has happened in the last 20-30 years, Forget about good teachers. Schools are struggling to find teachers. The only way you can solve this at scale is by using technology as an enabler," Byju Raveendran said.
He further added that he will never sell any product which is not used at his home or can't be used by his family.
"I will never sell any product which is not used at home. I will never sell anything to anyone which I won't give it to my son who is very special to me. Whether it's WhiteHat Junior so he has learned everything. The fundamentals of math and coding he has learned from some special teachers in WhiteHat Junior," he said.
Highlighting BYJU'S interactive methods of learning, Byju Raveendran focused on "how to learn" anything.
"Today there is no alternate to BYJU'S. So we have to make a comeback in one form or the other for students who have not got access. We were creating those movie like videos and game like interactions to make sure that students love learning. To bring the childlike curiosity back in students. The students who are going to schools today, all of us know that 15 years later, the skill set which they are learning in school, the math and science won't be of any use. But if you can make sure that you learn how to learn. You have to be, become a continuous learner. You need to learn at the pace which a four-year-old or 33 year old learn," he said.
Highlighting the scale at which BYJU's dominated other Ed-tech platforms, Byju Raveendran said, "Most of the AI platforms, the results come from BYJU'S. We are by far the largest platform like this even today. Our products were mapped to CBSE, state boards, ICSE. So that's what we did. We were building that product for 10 years. There's no one who has invested even a fraction of that globally. We get more users than Khan Academy in US."
The Bengaluru-based edtech company is facing financial problems, regulatory issues, and legal battles.
Speaking about the media narratives regarding the company's recent struggles, Byju Raveendran said, "We are not able to fight this media battle because it moves on the other side. It's like large corporations on the other side. But we are not giving up. So you need to understand that we won't give up till we win. How do you beat a person who never gives up?"
Founded in 2011, BYJU'S became a household name during the Covid-19. However the leading Ed-tech platform's fall was as rapid as its rise. (ANI)