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The Economic Times
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IIT Kanpur graduate made Rs 77 crore in a day at 26, says getting into Computer Science course was '20 times harder than Harvard'

Siddhartha Saxena's journey from a small town in India to building multi-million dollar companies in the United States is nothing short of a miracle. The IIT-Kanpur graduate, in a recent interview with content creator Viraj Ala, opened up about his journey and revealed how he achieved a remarkable financial milestone by making $8 million in just one day. That too, at the age of 26 when most people are busy figuring out their careers!

This helped Siddhartha Saxena position himself among India's rising AI entrepreneurs. Saxena revealed that he studied Computer Science at IIT Kanpur, claiming that it is 20 times harder to secure admission to that course than to get into Harvard.

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