The richest teacher of India once dreamed of joining IIT but life had other plans. Indeed true Alakh Pandey aspired to study at IIT and become an engineer but he couldn’t crack the JEE examination. Yet this failure didn’t break him. Instead it became a turning point in his life. He discovered his true passion for teaching and the rest is history! This paved the creation of Physics Wallah which is at present a multi-crore ed-tech empire. Meet man who failed IIT-JEE exam started giving tuition to children earned Rs 5000 as first salary now runs Rs 90000000000 company now is India’s richest… Hailing from Prayagraj Alakh Pandey pursued his studies at Harcourt Butler Technical Institute in Kanpur. However it is reported that he left the program during his second year. He realized that his true passion lay in teaching. With his family facing financial difficulties Pandey chose to pursue teaching as a full-time career and returned home to start giving tuition classes. For the unversed Pandey had initially dreamed of becoming an actor and was involved in local theatre in his younger days. He began coaching students of Class 8 because of his poor economic conditions.  Pandey was also famously known as the Physics Guy. If media reports are to be believed Pandeys parents had sold their house to support his and his sisters education. Speaking of his educational qualification Alakh scored 91% in Class 10 and 93.5% in Class 12. At the age of 22 he dropped out of his engineering college and returned to Allahabad to teach physics earning just Rs 5000 per month during that time. In the year 2016 Alakh Pandey started his YouTube channel named Physics Wallah. At first there were fewer views but he didnt lose hope. Due to his different way of teaching and genuineness he slowly gained students trust. With time lakhs of students started following him. He is the one who started the Physics Wallah mobile app in 2018 where quality education reached rural and urban students. The app was a means of low-cost high-quality learning and helped to make the company a go-to educational brand in India. Physics Wallah raised a whopping $101 million funding in 2022 giving it the elite unicorn startup tag. Its valuation jumped to almost ₹9100 crore. This was a standout feat given that Alakh Pandey constructed this huge edifice of education without going to IIT or having a formal degree. Alakh Pandey is one of the richest teachers in India with an estimated net worth of Rs 4400 crore. While it’s hard to say for sure who the richest teacher is many people believe Alakh is among the top. He is well-known as both a teacher and a successful entrepreneur. PW(Physics Wallah) is student’s lifelong learning partner that is democratizing education at scale in India with a presence spanning online offline and hybrid modes reaching 98% of Indias pin codes. PW has more than 10 million paid students on the PW App. PW also provides quality education to more than 36 million students through its 80 YouTube channels in 8 vernacular languages reads the official website. Alakh embarked on this journey in 2020 alongside Co-Founder Prateek Maheshwari with the goal of making high-quality education accessible to all students in Bharat.