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Mumbai founder hires 64-year-old intern, calls it startup's "best decision' | Trending
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (436+ words) A Mumbai-based founder has sparked a conversation online after welcoming a 64-year-old intern to his startup. The video has drawn attention for highlighting how decades of professional experience can continue to add value in a workplace, irrespective of a person's…...
The gap between Bangalore and Silicon Valley isn't money, it's imagination
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (531+ words) But capital is the symptom people can measure, not the cause. The deeper difference between a founder in San Francisco and a founder in Bangalore building AI companies is not how much money sits in front of them. It is…...
Founder recalls bizarre VC pitch: Investor joined late, then argued with woman on bed | Trending
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (460+ words) A London-based entrepreneur has opened up about his worst investment pitch to a venture capitalist. Mert Deveci recalled how, in 2022, a VC joined his virtual call, ignored him completely, and proceeded to have a fight with a woman who was…...
Small Indian companies are making big mark in AI, 28 firms add $47 billion in value
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (533+ words) Smaller Indian companies linked to data centers and Artificial Intelligence infrastructure have become some of the biggest stock market winners in 2026, though India does not have many major AI software or semiconductor companies. These companies are benefiting from the huge…...
The IPO wave will enshrine the AI gods" control over the future | World News
2+ week, 5+ day ago (20+ words) Looming offerings by Space X, Open AI and Anthropic are potentially perilous experiments in corporate governance, writes Gill Whitehead | World News...
Ex-Twitter CEO's AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (612+ words) Parallel Web Systems, a startup founded by Parag Agrawal, the former chief executive of Twitter, has raised $100 million in Series B funding'reflecting increased interest in deploying autonomous artificial-intelligence agents. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, and boosts the Palo…...
The Billionaire Math Geek Who Turned AI Into a Money-Printing Machine
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1054+ words) LONDON'Alex Gerko's edge as a trader comes from a supercomputer powered by geothermal energy in Iceland. Years before Chat GPT became a household name, his trading firm, XTX Markets, built an artificial-intelligence system aimed squarely at one goal: making money....
Indian founder turned down $525 K job, Stanford Ph D to build $61-million AI startup
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (526+ words) Y Combinator general partner Jared Friedman recently praised Varun Vummadi, calling his venture one of the "first great AI companies to come out of India. Vummadi is the co-founder and CEO of Giga, a San Francisco-based startup that builds voice-based…...
Tired of managing teams, this founder quit his startup and became a lumberjack
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (515+ words) A founder who quit his tech startup and moved to the mountains to become a lumberjack says he spent years not looking at a computer " until AI brought him back to the world of tech. Ryan Courtnage is the 51-year-old…...
Inside Reliance Jio campus: Techies offer glimpse into a developer's day
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (427+ words) Reliance Jio has offered social media users a peek into the daily routine of its software developers through a new Instagram video shared by the official World of Reliance handle. (Also read: Woman recalls hallway conversation with Mukesh Ambani at…...