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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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I quit my Rs 75 LPA job to build a startup and ChatGPT, Google AI made it irrelevant. We lost all customer in 30 days: Techie shares the hard reality of entrepreneurship

A techie who walked away from a Rs 75 lakh per annum pay cheque to chase a startup dream is now going viral for a very different reason. Not for the exit, but for what came right after it. In a post that has been doing the rounds on LinkedIn, the founder revealed that the very product they built their company around was wiped out within a month, thanks to ChatGPT and Google's AI tools doing the job for free. It is the kind of story that makes founders wince and scroll-happy readers pause.

The product that AI ate alive

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