Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup (opens in new tab)

Varun Vummadi is the co-founder of Giga, which builds AI agents for customer support for some of the biggest companies in the world, including DoorDash, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the US, and a top-three global telecom provider\. At Startup School India, Varun sat down YC General Partner Ankit Gupta to talk about why he turned down a high-paying quant job to start a company, the multiple pivots it took to find the right problem, and how their small team of eight beat a 400-person ...