New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- Tejesh Vaish, the 26-year-old son of a sweet seller in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, earned a scholarship, studied at IIT Kanpur and did multiple internships to ultimately bag a s 2.5 crore job at a US-based AI startup. He now works in the company's Dubai office. Here's a glimpse of his journey up the ladder:

Tejesh Vaish's father, Ashok Kumar Vaish, runs a modest sweet shop in Sadar Bazaar, Lucknow Cantonment and earns roughly Rs.5 lakh annually, according to Money Control.

Born into a traditional business family that migrated from a small village in Uttar Pradesh, Vaish grew up watching his father spend long hours at the family shop.

"No one in my family has a background in technology. I had to study hard, get a schola...