{"id":1277,"date":"2020-10-01T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2020-10-02T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:29:04","slug":"byju-raveendran-the-founder-and-ceo-of-the-byjus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/10\/01\/byju-raveendran-the-founder-and-ceo-of-the-byjus\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Newest Billionaire \u2013 Former 37-year-old school teacher creates app that \u2018Disney-fy\u2019s\u2019 learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec522\/author\/manize-nayani\/\">manize nayani<\/a>&nbsp;on February 2, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Byju Raveendran is the CEO and Founder of Think &amp; Learn Pvt. Ltd. has created an app named after the founder himself: BYJU. This online educational services company offers technology-based education services in India. The 37-year-old entrepreneur has collaborated with Walt Disney to create animated games, stories, quizzes and interactive educational content or what some call \u2018Disney-fy\u2019 learning. Imagine having Simba or Anna teach Maths and English to learners from grades 1 to 3! According to Raveendran,&nbsp;\u201cKids everywhere relate to Disney\u2019s Simba or Moana, who grip kids\u2019 attention before we take them through the loop of learning.\u201d According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-20\/zuckerberg-or-gates-billionaires-try-opposites-paths-for-online-education-in-india\">this<\/a>&nbsp;article, this venture is backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The company\u2019s founder grew up in a small village in southern India, who studied to become an engineer. Later, he started teaching friends and students in his spare time and coached them to crack some of the toughest engineering entrance exams in the country. To read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/byjus.com\/\">https:\/\/byjus.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;manize nayani&nbsp;on February 2, 2020 Byju Raveendran is the CEO and Founder of Think &amp; Learn Pvt. Ltd. has created an app named after the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/10\/01\/byju-raveendran-the-founder-and-ceo-of-the-byjus\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s Newest Billionaire \u2013 Former 37-year-old school teacher creates app that \u2018Disney-fy\u2019s\u2019 learning<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":74075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founders-parade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}