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Why India Produces CEOs While America Produces Founders

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg. All three dropped out of college and went on to build trillion-dollar companies.

Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Arvind Krishna. All three were school toppers, graduates of the world’s best universities, and today they run trillion-dollar companies.

What’s the difference?
America builds entrepreneurs.
India builds executives.

America’s classrooms reward curiosity, debate, and “what if” questions.

India’s classrooms reward memorization, ranks, and “what’s the right answer?”

The outcome? One system creates builders. The other creates managers.

The System That Never Changed

A teacher from 1825 walks into a classroom in 2025. They’d know exactly what to do.

The classroom hasn’t changed in two centuries.

Same wooden desks in rows. Same lectures to memorize.
Same exams where the “right” answer matters more than the curious question.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world moved on.

Factories replaced manual labor with machines.
Banks replaced ledgers with software.
Hospitals now use AI to scan X-rays in seconds.

But in schools?

Teachers still grade answer sheets by hand.
Students still cram information they forget after the exam.
Parents still only discover the truth at result day..

Education is the one place we forgot to innovate. And India is paying the price.

Turning 40% of wasted teacher time into real learning

India has 270 million students and 9 million teachers.

But almost half a teacher’s workday isn’t teaching—it’s paperwork.

They spend hours filling attendance registers, preparing lesson plans, setting question papers, and traveling to exam centers just to grade answer sheets.

The result is devastating:

• Teachers are overworked and burned out.
• Students memorize for exams but don’t actually learn.
• Skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity never get built.
• Parents only learn the truth when it’s too late—after the exam marks come in.

Instead of preparing young people for the real world, the system creates graduates who can pass tests but struggle to apply knowledge.

That’s the real cost of two centuries of educational stagnation.

TeachBetter.ai is like an AI assistant for classrooms. One platform that helps teachers, students, and parents all at once.

For teachers: Instead of spending hours making lesson plans, quizzes, worksheets, or grading copies, a teacher can do all of that in minutes with TeachBetter.ai.

For Students: TeachBetter.ai acts like a personal coach, explaining concepts, asking practice questions, and giving feedback — so students understand instead of just memorizing.

For Parents: TeachBetter.ai gives daily progress updates and a safe, distraction-free study space — so parents finally know how their child is really learning.

The platform provides 18+ AI tools in one dashboard: lesson planning, quiz generation, grading automation, concept explainers, and parent engagement tools.

Everything exports to PDF/Word/PPT with 80+ language support.

But here's the breakthrough: TeachBetter.ai partnered with world renowned universities to integrate 100+ interactive STEM simulations.

Market Opportunity: The $738 Billion Market Finally Ready for Disruption

India represents one of the world's largest education opportunities: 270 million students and 9.5 million teachers in the K-12 system alone.

The global numbers are staggering:

• Total EdTech market: $738.6 billion by 2029
• AI in education: $32.3 billion by 2030 (31.2% CAGR)
• Target addressable market: $5.82 billion

Timing couldn't be better. Over 60% of teachers already use AI tools, with 55% reporting improved learning outcomes. The shift from EdTech 1.0 (content libraries) to AI 2.0 (automation and personalization) is happening now.

Unlike previous education waves that required massive infrastructure changes, AI adoption needs only internet access—something India's digital revolution has already provided.

Meet the Founders Building India's Education Future

Binit Agarwalla (Founder & CEO): brings 15 years of B2B/B2C experience from India's telecom revolution, strategy work at Aditya Birla Group, and SaaS expertise from Cornerstone OnDemand. B.Tech from NIT Rourkela, MBA from XIMB.

Vipin Kumar (Co-founder): adds 10 years from Tata Communications and Cornerstone, with B.Tech from IET Lucknow and MBA from IIM Kozhikode.

GVP’s Take

Education is one of the few industries that has barely changed in 200 years.

Every attempt at reform has added more burden on teachers instead of freeing them.

Teachers remain overworked, students memorize instead of learning, and parents stay in the dark.

AI finally creates a way to flip this equation.

TeachBetter’s strategy is simple but powerful: start with teachers.

By solving their pain first and winning their trust, the platform creates a natural path to expand into students and schools.

They are also building for India’s reality. The ₹149 per month price point makes it affordable for Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns, while multi-language support ensures inclusivity across diverse classrooms.

Their partnership with the World renowned university brings world-class STEM simulations to students who have never had access to labs.

The $1.70 price is more than just affordable—it’s a moat.

Global players can’t serve India profitably at that level, but TeachBetter can because their model and cost structure are designed for this market.

Traction proves it’s working: 13,000 teachers adopted the platform in four months with almost no marketing.

Growth has spread organically, teacher to teacher and school to school, showing strong network effects.

This is more than another EdTech company.

It’s a chance to reshape how 270 million Indian students learn—moving from short-term memory to real-world skills. That’s why we’re featuring TeachBetter.ai.

Source: This article is originally published on Global Venture Play