{"id":1003829,"date":"2026-04-20T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003829"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:42:59","slug":"senior-it-executives-join-ai-party-as-startup-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/senior-it-executives-join-ai-party-as-startup-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior IT executives join AI party as startup founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For senior Indian IT executives, the hottest new company to work for is their own AI startup. <\/p>\n<p>Since mid-2025, at least 12 US-based senior executives have exited large IT companies to start new ventures as the rise of artificial intelligence has created a sweet spot for them to turn into startup founders. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Coforge said its executive vice president Anup Kumar resigned to pursue an \u201centrepreneurial route.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For senior Indian IT executives, the hottest new company to work for is their own AI startup. Since mid-2025, at least 12 US-based senior executives have exited large IT companies to start new ventures as the rise of artificial intelligence has created a sweet spot for them to turn into startup founders. On Friday, Coforge said its executive vice president Anup Kumar resigned to pursue an \u201centrepreneurial route.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}