Varun Vummadi
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- Y Combinator24 min
Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup
GigaML, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by IIT Kharagpur alumnus Varun and his Stanford-educated co-founder, has pivoted from EdTech to developing AI agents that achieve 60% to 70% support deflection rates for major clients like DoDash and DoorDash. The company addresses the enterprise bottleneck of manual configuration by launching "AI forward deployed engineers" that automatically iterate policies to improve business metrics, a strategy enabled by their "0.1% talent" recruitment philosophy and heavy reliance on human-coded expertise rather than sales teams. By leveraging the YC trust network to secure early contracts with eight-person operations, GigaML aims to unlock broader enterprise AI adoption through a generic automation layer that eliminates the need for extensive human engineering resources.