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I started as a math teacher in Kerala. Ten years later I was running the most valuable edtech company in the world.
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Education is the largest market in the world. Every parent will pay for their child's future. That is a universal truth.
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We had 150 million users. Tiger Global invested. BlackRock invested. I thought we were invincible. Nobody is invincible.
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The sales tactics were aggressive. I take responsibility. When you are growing at that speed you lose control of the details.
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From 22 billion to zero. That is not a valuation correction. That is a lesson in what happens when growth becomes the only metric.
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I built something incredible and I destroyed it through mismanagement. That is the honest truth.