Achin Bhattacharyya, Founder and CEO, Notebook.
On today’s episode of The Brand Called You, we have with us a very accomplished professional, Mr. Achin Bhattacharyya. Mr. Bhattacharyya is the Founder and CEO of Notebook. He has worked with renowned brands like KPMG, Deloitte, GE and PWC.
Podcast
Overview
“Schooling is irreplaceable”
On today’s episode of The Brand Called You, we have with us a very accomplished professional, Mr. Achin Bhattacharyya. Mr. Bhattacharyya is the Founder and CEO of Notebook. He has worked with renowned brands like KPMG, Deloitte, GE and PWC.
After a very successful career in the corporate world, Mr. Bhattacharyya decided to changed gears and do something meaningful. He decided to switch to the social sector and make an impractful change. Mr. Bhattacharyya initiated his venture named Notebook which is mobile’s first, digital learning product. He asking with his team creates engaging videos for school children. This platform is accessible to students of all standards and for the CBSE, ICSE and several state boards across the country. Notebook is an academic part of about 17.5 lakh students’ routine.
As his professional career revolves around education, Mr. Garg put forth some great questions with respect to the same. They discussed the standardisation of education and the literacy rates of our country. Mr. Bhattacharyya believes that while Notebook cannot replace traditional schooling, it is a strong support for teachers that are teaching online in the pandemic situation. He also remarked that along with Brand awareness and engaging seminars, involvement of trs, parents and students at large is what makes Notebook stand out from other platforms
Mr. Bhattacharyya has built his brand on the values of inclusion and respect. His venture has helped a very large number of students achieve good quality education in the comfort of their homes. Her. Bhattacharyya’s effort to make Notebook accessible in rural areas has led him to provide education to the very needy. Success to him is being able to make a bigger impact on several lives!
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Profile
Achin Bhattacharyya, CEO and Founder, Notebook
Achin is a Chartered Accountant and ex-Director, Deloitte. He had worked in India and abroad in various senior capacities in GE, PwC, and KPMG before joining Deloitte. After taking a sabbatical for three months he traversed the length and breadth of the country and spoke to students, parents, and teachers to understand the challenges they face and the need for creating an engaging and immersive learning experience that can help in shaping the young minds during their formative years.
Achin Bhattacharyya, pursued this dream to provide access to learning for primary and secondary school education in India. With the inclusion of all major boards and outreach to urban and rural classes of the country at affordable price points, Notebook is an effort to provide access to easy and efficient learning for school students. To provide quality content aligned to the syllabus, Notebook has a highly qualified team of content developers and an advisory board of senior educators, who have helped in ensuring the highest quality standards, that is validated across multiple schools. Care was also taken to provide best-in- class creative elements and technology. In the highly competitive edtech sector, Notebook stands out with its exceptional features delivering accessibility to knowledge with better functionality and efficiency.
They take special care to make the reach as simple as possible by converting each and every topic into concise audio-visual form, delivering through cloud-based architecture that can be streamed on any personal devices. Notebook is focused on bringing more features and functions to act as an aid for the purpose of making the process of learning more inclusive.
