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▶ 0:39 · $GIGAML · Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup
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Y Combinator

Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup

2026-05-29 · 1 company · 5 thematic
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IIT Kharagpur electrical engineering graduate who turned down a $550K quant trading job and Stanford PhD to build GigaML, an AI agents for customer support company backed by Y Combinator. Previously won Kaggle competitions and did LLM research at Stanford pre-ChatGPT.

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“We build AI agents for customer support. We work with some of the biggest companies in the world like DoorDash. We work with one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world. Top three telecom providers in the world. The traditional way th…”
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