WhiteHat Jr's 41-year-old Founder Karan Bajaj, who sold the 18-month-old online coding classes startup to BYJU's for $300 million, is also a novelist. An alumnus of BIT Mesra and IIM Bangalore, he worked as Discovery Networks' South Asia CEO for nearly 3 years before founding WhiteHat Jr. He's also a Yoga teacher who lived in an ashram for a year.