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Priya Krishnan

Chief Digital and Transformation Officer, Bright Horizons · 1 appearance on the record.

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Priya Krishnan is the founder of KLAY Prep Schools and Daycare, which grew into India's largest chain of corporate-sponsored preschools. She later joined Bright Horizons as Chief Digital and Transformation Officer to lead digital transformation and consumer growth initiatives.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 6 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Priya argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
KLAY operates 130 preschool centers serving about 7,500 students
“We have a 130 now, ah, with about seven and a half thousand students.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 3:56 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY

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Everything Priya Krishnan said on the Neon Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
India views education as dignified work, but childcare as domestic help
“And the third biggest lesson for us was that in India, education is seen as dignified, but care is not. Ah, so care is seen as the helps, helps job.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 5:21 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Opinion
Women are inherently conscientious and need emotional security at work
“Women are inherently conscientious. What they need is emotional security in the place of operation.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 10:02 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Insight
Preschools must operate like high-street consumer retail brands regarding accessibility
“So, you know, picking a spot which is easy to access, there is easy parking facilities, ah, that it's not a one-way system. Parents can get there and get out of there easily is absolutely critical. So for all practical purposes, we are like a high street brand…”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 7:17 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Insight
Preschools are hyperlocal businesses that cannot rely solely on word-of-mouth
“You know, my assumption coming in is that a school is something that grows by word of mouth. People say good things and other people come to it. But it is a very hyperlocal business. If you're opening in a center, Letting people know, ah, that you're opening i…”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 7:40 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Insight
Corporate offices cannot dictate frontline childcare service delivery
“And as a brand, we'd be very foolish to say sitting in one central office that we can dictate how the service is delivered. People on the ground have to feel empowered and enabled to do it on a day in day out basis.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 9:22 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Insight
Investors step back when founders operate businesses with discipline
“I also think investors don't want To operate the business. As long as they get the confidence that you're operating the business, and add the principles that they have committed in turn to their, you know, partners, et cetera that becomes a smoother relationsh…”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 15:10 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Assertion Supported
KLAY operates 130 preschool centers serving about 7,500 students
“We have a 130 now, ah, with about seven and a half thousand students.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 3:56 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Insight
Rapid childcare center occupancy is crucial due to high fixed costs
“It's a very high fixed cost business. So we have rentals, which is a fixed cost, people's salaries, which are fixed costs. So the sooner you fill the centers, More chances of viability of that center are.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 11:09 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Assertion Not checkable as stated
KLAY has operated 130 preschool centers and shut down only two
“We've had a 130 centers. We've shut two in the history of the company.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 11:39 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Disclosure
KLAY raised institutional funding from Kaizen and Peepul Capital
“So when we worked with Kaizen, we wanted an educational fund. We said we're a new education company. How do we get resources from them? And then the second fund that we raised was from People Capital, which is a consumer fund.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 16:54 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Assertion Supported
KLAY Preschools employs and pays salaries for over 2,100 people
“The doubts have crept in, you know, in terms of saying today we're responsible for 2100 people's salaries day in and day on.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 20:18 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Disclosure
KLAY defines organizational success as scaling from 7,500 to 100,000 children
“So for me, the seven and a half thousand going to 10,000 going to a 100,000, ah, doing it consistently day in and day out and making that experience seamless for each parent as we scale is what I would define as success for the organization.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 23:52 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Disclosure
KLAY's operational model boils down to cash flow, fixed costs, and EBITDA
“So for us, it's a high cash flow business. It's a high fixed cost business. It's an EBITDA valued business. So if we don't stay focused on these three you know, we will fail as a team and as every problem can be boiled into one of these parameters and we just …”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 27:25 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Assertion Not checkable as stated
City migrants in India struggle to return to work after having children
“There was also a clear demonstrated business need, because I saw a lot of the teams that I worked with in India struggling to get back to work once they'd had children, because they'd migrated to these cities.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 1:11 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY
Assertion Supported
KLAY expanded within six months following the success of its first center
“So our first center was a runaway success. If anything, it scared us, saying, you know, ah, very quickly, the fact that we had set it up, we expanded within less than six months.”
Priya Krishnan Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 6:01 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY

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Appearances (1)

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100xEntrepreneur | Episode 3 | Priya Krishnan, Founder India's Largest Preschools KLAY Jul 25, 2019 24m
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