The absolute shithousery and cesspool behaviour I have seen from this company is unbelievable. Stoa School deserve to rot in hell for treating students like a cash cow while completely destroying their employability.

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So recently stoa announced that they’re revamping their business. And for some reason everyone (other startup founders/ twitter folks) were supporting them and telling them not to get discouraged and to keep building and other shit. 

I’ve interacted with a few stoa students and they have nothing good to say about stoa. Apparently they were promised placements which no one got. 

Most of the people I know who did the stoa program, did it because they were sold the idea of getting a good consulting / founders office kinda job. The fees aren’t cheap for anyone coming from a middle class background. 

What pisses me off is why are we as a society encouraging such founders - like they sold something without being able to deliver which had a direct impact on the life of students. 

In my personal humble opinion these people need to be called out.

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The original mafia is a lot bigger. You cant beat traditional MBAs.

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What happened to Stoa. They were doing decent work. Seems they have shut down.

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Heard from some ex employee that their dues are pending and everyone fears the one time challenger Neo-MBA Alternative company has no funds and will to continue.  

Is it shutting down? Or are they pivoting again! ?? 

I was looking for switching from the current co (M). But the edtech scene looks bad now

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They are heavy on branding and showing it as the B-School if you want to work at Start-ups? 

I want to work at a VC firm in investments team.So if the cost is justified even if it's only for connections at major VC firms. Or should I look to get into the traditional 2 yr MBA program?

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Work Ex : 1 Yr as SDE
Education: Engg from Tier 3.

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The most celebrated MBA givers are nowhere to be seen . Neither founder giving MBA lessons in LinkedIn nor students highly rating the MBA program 😂 funniest part -after building tons of CXOs through their courses , now they are building a tool for CXO 🤣

Is STOA dead ? Yes it is

I heard from someone in the industry that Stoa laid off most of the people and only 7 of them are still there, including 4 of their co founders. The Main reason was that they were not able to provide placements to the members and their experience had turn to shit . What is happening with ed tech , also the sauce is that now they are pivoting into self paced courses following the coursera model. Alternative MBA nahi chal payega India .

Stoa laid off 90 percent of their workforce

MBA (any course for that matter) is a “means-to-an-end” to a good job. If no job no demand of that course . Maybe they weren’t able to screen good candidates. As good candidates go to top B schools. The avg guys didn’t get job as expected and then revolted .  
 Many edtechs tried this model of taking avg students and promising jobs but jobs are hard to come by even for good candidates. Hence their models fails.     
 If education in India has to be improved it has to start at the school education.

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A friend is pretty upset about where they are working. They feel a bit cheated with the #edtech company not growing as the founders kept promising them. The company has reversed its initial growth and is now not sure of the next steps. 

They were largely into giving charters instead of degrees and their pandemic success has disappeared. 

They are wondering if they should cut loss and jump ship before the company shuts. Or should they sink with the team?

The founders are pretty cool guys outside. With a good reputation. But they haven't been able to scale the company and promises have dried up. 

I wish I could reveal the name - but I don't want to affect anyone or point at anyone else. But my friend is really traumatised and has lost interest in work and is given new roles and responsibilities every week at '_t_a'. And everyone else is demotivated and upset with how the founders seem to cut their losses by doing secondaries but they can't do a thing! Even the investors don't seem to care much. 

My friend and a few others plan to take this up with the founders on Wednesday. And there is an internal revolt going on.

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