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Inside the AI startup, where ambition runs high, the culture is broken and the fallout may just be fatal.

If you’ve followed India’s startup news lately, you’ve probably heard of Rajkiran Panuganti. The head of GenAI engineering at Krutrim, Bhavish Aggarwal’s artificial intelligence startup, has been in the news after an engineer from the company’s data science team died by suicide last month. The alleged cause was extreme pressure and toxicity at work. The team was led by Panuganti.
An electrical engineer from IIT Bombay’s class of 2003 and a PhD in computer science from Ohio State University, Panuganti spent over 14 years at Microsoft working on cutting-edge technologies like Copilot and Bing. Notably, he was handpicked by Aggarwal …
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