Corona Time Is Boom Time For Edutech Startups
The coronavirus outbreak has changed the education paradigm, perhaps for all times to come. As schools and colleges in India enter their fourth…
Category: Startups
How The Airbnb Founders Sold Obama-Labelled Cereal Boxes To Grow Airbnb In Its Early Days
Airbnb is a multi-billion dollar startup today that’s just a few steps shy of filing its IPO, an event that would’ve most likely happened this year if not for the toll the Coronavirus pandemic took on the company. But back in the day, its founders adopted some unique approaches to fund and grow the company.
The Top Two Most Valuable Startups In The World Are Now Both Chinese
Much has been written about how this is the Chinese century, and now there’s more and more data to support it. The top…
Didi Chuxing Says That Its China Rides Are Now Back At Pre-Covid Levels
The world economy has been hit hard by the Covid pandemic, but the first signs of a recovery are now beginning to emerge. …
Jio Has Raised Nearly As Much Money In 6 Weeks As All Indian Startups Together Had Raised In 2019
When Reliance Jio had first launched in 2016, Mukesh Ambani had hinted that it would be the world’s biggest startup. Four years later, his…
After Reports That Google Was Eyeing A Stake In Vodafone-Idea, Amazon Reportedly Eyes Stake In Airtel
India’s telecom sector might just be about to get a whole lot more interesting. Days after it was reported that Google was eyeing…
UPI Payments Rebound Sharply In May, Register Second-Best Month Ever
Even as India is slowly opening up after the two-month-long coronavirus lockdown, there are signs that that economy is slowly whirring back to…
MakeMyTrip Lays Off 350 Employees, Says Covid Has Changed The Viability Of Some Of Its Businesses
The news of the coronavirus layoffs keeps streaming in, even as lockdowns are slowly being lifted across the world. MakeMyTrip has said it’s…
Even As People Had Been Skeptical, How Elon Musk Had Always Predicted He’d Send A Man Into Space
Elon Musk is currently the toast of the world — SpaceX has just become the first private company to send a man into…