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My interviews and articles on Startups and Writing have been featured in various publications, a sampling of which are here. Please feel free to use the photographs and content below.

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India’s Byju’s acquires WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million

Byju’s has acquired edtech startup WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million as the Indian online learning giant looks to expand its dominant reach in the country...

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Karan Bajaj Says No More Startups After $300-Million WhiteHat Jr Sale

Karan Bajaj sold his coding coaching startup WhiteHat Jr to Byju’s for $300 million. But he will neither go back to starting another venture nor...

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Autobiography of a multimillionaire yogi: The incredible journey and contrarian ideas of Karan Bajaj

WhiteHat Jr, a platform that trains children to code. By selling his startup within 18 months of launch, for $300 million (Rs 2,220 crore) in cash...

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Karan Bajaj: Cracking the code

In Winston Groom’s book Forrest Gump, the eponymous hero unintentionally flits from one area of expertise to the other, achieving great success at being...

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Karan Bajaj: A winning discovery

When you see his credentials—mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology (Ranchi) and a degree from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)...

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WhiteHat Jr founder Karan Bajaj opens up about $300 million Byju’s deal, coding, edtech startup boom and more

Karan Bajaj is not your typical entrepreneur. Sure, he does have a top management degree (IIM-B) and a stint at a consulting firm (BCG)...

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WhiteHat Jr’s Karan Bajaj on how taking three sabbatical breaks helped him grow as a person and as an entrepreneur

Karan Bajaj, Founder, and CEO of WhiteHat Jr donned several hats prior to starting up. He was the CEO at Discovery, an author with Penguin Random House...

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I just do one thing very well at a time: Whitehat Jr’s CEO Karan Bajaj to BrandSutra

Best-selling author, yoga expert, management consultant, marketer, broadcaster and now entrepreneur, KARAN BAJAJ, Founder and CEO...

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Karan Bajaj: On Yearlong Sabbaticals and Real Jobs

This week, my special guest is Karan Bajaj. Karan is a #1 bestselling Indian novelist with a full-time corporate job and a rather unique approach to life...

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Lessons From A 1 Year Meditation Sabbatical With Karan Bajaj

My guest today is Indian-American author Karan Bajaj, who is known for the 3 bestselling novels he has written...

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‘I’m a yogi first’

Author Karan Bajan — who is high up on the corporate ladder as the Chief Marketing Officer of Aden and Anais in New York...

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Indian-origin novelist and his wife's soul trip around the world

Scotland, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Goa, Madurai, Uttarkashi and even Kolhapur. After covering most of Europe and parts of India...

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Karan Bajaj: Writer at Large

An IIM-Bangalore graduate and a brand manager for Kraft Foods, New York, he was just another suit until the release of his book, Keep Off The Grass, which put him firmly in the literary limelight...

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Mid-Career Executives: Should you quit your corporate job to StartUp?

If you’re working on a startup, there’s probably a 21 year old in a college dorm room who’s working on the same idea with the raw energy of youth...

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Women-centric value creation models: The incredibly unique, untapped potential for StartUps in India

Each year, India loses millions of extremely qualified, educated women from the formal workplace whose participation could almost single-handedly transform the destiny of the country...

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The low probability of startup success – and why you should still do it!

"Creative success lies in meeting unarticulated needs, which are generally at the edge of the system," says Karan Bajaj, an author and technology entrepreneur...

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How to know if your start-up will work

WhiteHat Jr grew to 5000+ employees, while using almost no incremental funds.We had 20 employees in the first nine months of starting up. Then, in the next nine months, WhiteHat Jr grew to 5000+ employees....

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A Hard-Driving Executive's Year of Learning to Let Go

Growing up in the Indian Himalayas, I saw a steady stream of professionals -- doctors, engineers, lawyers -- leave their careers and live in ashrams and caves near my village...

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