Rudrojas had a rough couple of weeks as he did not know how to say 'no' to a $300,000 offer. "That's a lot of money," he said to Business Insider as he recounted how he built an AI tool to help farmers analyze crop health and why he did not want the tool to become unavailable to farmers for whom he built it. A venture capitalist last year offered him that shocking amount of money to drop out of high school and run his AI startup full-time. Indian-origin Rudrojas Kunvar is all of 16 years old, and he gathered the courage to say 'no' to the lucrative offer because he did not want his product to get wrapped in chasing benefits.
His platform Evion is free and he has now partnered with 18-year-old Jacob Lee to expand the reach of his tool. His tool can help farmers analyze crop health by uploading photos of their camera, even a cheap drone camera.
