Indian techie Rishabh Agarwal is a known name in the AI space, as the IIT Bombay graduate has been building Periodic Labs, an AI startup. Last year, around August, Agarwal announced his "tough decision" to exit Meta and take a different kind of risk by making something of his own. As Agarwal's impressive CV started going viral again, Agarwal addressed the claim that he left a $1 million offer from Meta and clarified that the offer "was an order of magnitude higher than $1 million", suggesting that he let more than just $1 million go to build his own company.
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"Meet Rishabh Agrawal, who got AIR 33 in JEE and completed his B. Tech, Computer Science from IIT Bombay. He worked at Google Brain, DeepMind, Waymo, and when Mark Zuckerberg personally gave him a $1 million job offer, he denied it. And do you know what he's doing today? Building the next-generation AI company called Periodic Labs," the viral post said.
