Dubai, May 18 -- BYJU'S founder, Byju Raveendran has described the acquisition of Aakash Institute as one of his "best acquisitions" and admitted that acquiring WhiteHat Jr was a "business mistake."

"It's one of our best acquisitions now. At that point in time, that was 5 per cent of the valuation of Think and Learn. And we thought that there is a huge opportunity to what was available only to a few students in big metros, making the same kind of options available to small towns. So we, after the acquisition, actually took Akash (Institute) to small towns. What was reaching out to only a few parts of India? the same programme, we made it available to 300-plus senders within 18 months of taking over. It was actually one of our best acquis...