India, March 19 -- An Indian-origin techie has shared how he left what he once considered his "dream job" at Apple to co-found an artificial intelligence startup with his father. In conversation with Business Insider, Akshat Prakash, 27, the CTO of Camb.ai, an AI startup focused on speech and translation technology, said that the decision to leave Apple came from a long-standing desire to build something of his own.

The 27-year-old, born in a small village near New Delhi, moved from India to Ireland at a young age, before moving back to the country. He left for the US in 2016 for his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University. "10 years later, I split my time between California and the UAE as the CTO of an AI startup I cofounded ...