{"id":1017521,"date":"2026-06-29T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017521"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:16:20","slug":"from-google-engineer-to-ai-startup-founder-how-a-podcast-with-100000-youtube-views-gave-23-year-old-aashna-doshi-the-confidence-to-quit-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/from-google-engineer-to-ai-startup-founder-how-a-podcast-with-100000-youtube-views-gave-23-year-old-aashna-doshi-the-confidence-to-quit-google\/","title":{"rendered":"From Google engineer to AI startup founder: How a podcast with 100,000 YouTube views gave 23-year-old Aashna Doshi the confidence to quit Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aashna Doshi, worked as an engineer at Google but the 23-year-old walked away from one of the most coveted paychecks in Silicon Valley. Her decision to leave the Search giant wasn\u2019t spurred by corporate dissatisfaction instead she was fascinated by the growth of a creative side project that transformed her from a corporate engineer into an ambitious AI startup founder.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Business Insider, in February 2024, amid a brutal tech job market, Google offered her a full-time engineering position. However, the job was located in California and Doshi wanted to live and work in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aashna Doshi, worked as an engineer at Google but the 23-year-old walked away from one of the most coveted paychecks in Silicon Valley. Her decision to leave the Search giant wasn\u2019t spurred by corporate dissatisfaction instead she was fascinated by the growth of a creative side project that transformed her from a corporate engineer into an ambitious AI startup founder. According to a report by Business Insider, in February 2024, amid a brutal tech job market, Google offered her a full-time engineering position. However, the job was located in California and Doshi wanted to live and work in New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017521","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017522,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017521\/revisions\/1017522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}