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Rocket Learning aims to change academic fate of kids at bottom of pyramid

How Rocket Learning is laying the foundation of education for children from low-income families

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Rocket Learning has no genuine competitors yet as behavioural change is not easy to pull off.

Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
Meet Azeez Gupta, now 30. A graduate from IIT-Delhi, Azeez joined Mackinsey as a management consultant and worked there for a bit before he was seconded to the NGO Pratham. During 2017-19, Gupta headed to do an MBA from Harvard Business School (where he was supported by a merit based fellowship as an education innovator) and rejoined Pratham full time at a fraction of what he earned in Mckinsey. In May 2020, Gupta quit Pratham to start his own venture with a group of professionals : Rocket Learning.

At the very start, Gupta was joined by Utsav Kheria, now 35, St

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