{"id":1031355,"date":"2026-08-27T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031355"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:28:55","slug":"et-startup-awards-2026-comeback-kid-mukund-jha-returns-stronger-with-ai-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/et-startup-awards-2026-comeback-kid-mukund-jha-returns-stronger-with-ai-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2026 | Comeback Kid: Mukund Jha returns stronger with AI bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Comeback Kid category, the ET Startup Awards 2026 jury looked for founders who had endured a bruising phase and returned stronger. Mukund Jha\u2019s second act after Dunzo stood out for combining the scars of a high-profile failure with a sharp bet on artificial intelligence on a global stage. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Comeback Kid, it was about people who have gone through tough times, sometimes essentially near-death experiences, and then come back very, very strong,\u201d said jury member and Navi founder Sachin Bansal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Comeback Kid category, the ET Startup Awards 2026 jury looked for founders who had endured a bruising phase and returned stronger. Mukund Jha\u2019s second act after Dunzo stood out for combining the scars of a high-profile failure with a sharp bet on artificial intelligence on a global stage. \u201cFor Comeback Kid, it was about people who have gone through tough times, sometimes essentially near-death experiences, and then come back very, very strong,\u201d said jury member and Navi founder Sachin Bansal.<\/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-1031355","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\/1031355","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=1031355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031377,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031355\/revisions\/1031377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}