India, Oct. 13 -- When Pratyush Saini and Anirudha Kulkarni graduated from IIT Delhi, comfortable corporate trajectories lay ahead of them. Holding degrees in computer science, the duo entered the high-paying tech industry right out of college - Saini in 2023 and Kulkarni in 2024. By 2025, their combined salaries had crossed Rs.1.3 crore.

However, driven by the urge to solve larger problems, both founders chose to walk away from these lucrative corporate roles to get a taste of entrepreneurship.

After scaling and selling one legal-tech startup, the IIT Delhi graduates are now working on ByteAsk, an AI coding agent backed by Y Combinator that has already raised $1 million ( Rs.9.5 crore) in pre-seed.

Pratyush Saini, 25, spoke to HT.com ...