Vedantu accused of harassing content marketing firm

A day after Edtech firm Vedantu laid off 424 out of 5,900 employees, Anuradha Tiwari, founder of JustBurstOut, launched an offensive against Vedantu’s CEO and Co-founder Vamsi Krishna on LinkedIn.

Tiwari took a jibe at Krishna saying “Looks like karma bites and it bites real bad”.

She posted a screenshot of a conversation with Krishna, where she was seen following up on the pending payment for the services provided to Vedantu by her content marketing agency JustBurstOut.

Tiwari in her post blamed that due to the negligence of Krishna’s payment, she has lost her good writers. “You were shameless enough to never respond to my endless emails, calls, and WhatsApp messages. Even number of our writers reached out to you for the payment of the work that you have shamelessly published on your website and still have not paid us,” she added.

Tiwari claimed that Vedantu, instead of clearing her outstanding payments, spent on hiring a legal firm to harass her firm. 

“If you had bit of ethics and professionalism, you would have paid us or had the guts to respond to me or my writers. But instead you chose to put funds to hire a big legal firm to harass and threaten us. And now you are faking to care about your employees whom you fired due to your own incompetence,” she said.

Tiwari questioned the professional ethics of the edtech firm and its actions. “How much pay cut you and your founder friends have taken? That alone could have saved many jobs. Why have not you invested your personal funds if you believe so much in mission?”

She also questioned the marketing spending of the company. “You have all the funds to hire the biggest law firm in Bengaluru and pay millions to Aamir Khan for IPL just weeks back but can’t retain these hard-working employees,” she quipped.

Her blog post has garnered immense support from LinkedIn users. They appeared empathising with her saying they have been in similar situations where big firms haven’t paid them and slapped them with a legal notice.

16 years ago, Vedantu was started by Vamsi Krishna, Anand Prakash, and Pulkit Jain with a mission: 'To enable quality teaching to each and every child' which has kept the company and countless others going.

Earlier this month, the firm laid off 200 of its employees, so far Vedantu has laid off 624 of its employees.