India, June 23 -- A social media post about a young entrepreneur earning around Rs.1 crore a month through his AI-focused venture has gone viral online, drawing admiration as well as envy from social media users. Taking to LinkedIn, Topmate co-founder and CTO Dinesh Singh shared the journey of Ayush Singh, a 19-year-old self-taught AI engineer who did not have elite credentials or financial privilege.

"He's not an IITian, not an MIT grad, and wasn't born with a silver spoon," Dinesh Singh wrote in the post, which later surfaced on X and gained widespread attention.

The founder shared that Ayush was just 13 when the Covid-19 pandemic pushed his family into a financial crisis. Armed with "outdated courses, a patchy internet, a laptop, and...