{"id":970032,"date":"2025-10-28T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970032"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:57:28","slug":"indian-techie-left-high-paying-job-at-meta-to-start-his-own-biz-in-bihar-forced-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/indian-techie-left-high-paying-job-at-meta-to-start-his-own-biz-in-bihar-forced-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian techie left high-paying job at Meta to start his own biz in Bihar, forced to quit\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Kumar, a former Vice President of Product Development at Meta, has opened up about his failed attempt to build a thriving startup ecosystem in Bihar. The IIT Delhi and MIT Sloan alumnus left his high-paying tech job in California in 2023 to return home and invest in the state\u2019s innovation ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>A dream to transform Bihar\u2019s startup landscape<br \/>\nIn a now-viral LinkedIn post, Kumar wrote, \u201cTwo years ago, I made one of the biggest decisions of my life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Kumar, a former Vice President of Product Development at Meta, has opened up about his failed attempt to build a thriving startup ecosystem in Bihar. The IIT Delhi and MIT Sloan alumnus left his high-paying tech job in California in 2023 to return home and invest in the state\u2019s innovation ecosystem. A dream to transform Bihar\u2019s startup landscape In a now-viral LinkedIn post, Kumar wrote, \u201cTwo years ago, I made one of the biggest decisions of my life.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970032","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=970032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}