Great Learning focuses on job readiness of students, looks to raise $60 mn

Great Learning, an online education site, is focused on an optimal combination of process, technology and people

Great Learning’s Mohan Lakhamraju was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug a bit earlier than most. A computer scientist from IIT-Mumbai, in the early 1990s when his peers were acquiring degrees from the best colleges in the United States, Lakhamraju dropped out of his doctorate at Berkeley, California to be part of a start-up in the US that was eventually bought and subsumed into Hewlett Packard.

His start-up experience opened his eyes to how little he knew about business so when many of his peers were embarking on their careers, he headed to Stanford Business School at 26 to hone