Now a days, techies are sharing their “The Worst Financial Decision Ever” taking the social media, where they are regretting about turning down the job offers from the startups who are highly successful, defining a new era. Among them, an India Engineer recalled 2022, when Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offered him a founding engineer role.
Let’s find out the detail of this techie’s as well others turning down story, and regretting now, when the same startups are defining the future.
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This Techie Turned Down The Perplexity’s Job Offfer.
Indian Engineer Baradwaj tooks X (before Twitter), recalling his “Worst Financial Decision Ever”, by turinig down a job proposal from eary staged AI startup Perplexity in 2022. The Indian Engineer Baradwaj replied to another techie’s post about a similar offer he declined.
He revealed that at that he had two offers one from Aravind Srinivas and another US based company which he chose US firm neglecting Indian origin CEO Aravind Srinivas. Sharing the pick of Aravind Srinivas’s messages, he regretted about his “worst financial decision”.
Baradwaj says things were going good in the Alameda Reasearsh/FTX which led to say no to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas’s proposal. This turning down has become his worst financial decision as Perplexity is valuating in billion dollar.
Engineer Aditya Baradwaj replied to a post, regretting for similar decision, Aditya wrote, “nah i’ve got you beat for worst financial decision (i said no because of how well things were going at Alameda Research/FTX)”
“Hey Aditya – been a long time – would you like to catch up some time? I am starting a company building LMs for businesses and and would like to talk to you about it for a founding engineer,” Srinivas wrote in a message on July 18, 2022.
Baradwaj replied asking time of one day for meeting, but later rejected the offer to focus on the working at Alameda Research/FTX. While adding below his original post he wrote, “kudos to @AravSrinivas and team though, Perplexity is a great product”.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas’s Reply To This Engineer.
Reacting to the post, Aravind Srinivas gave a simple comment, “e/acc vs effective altruism”.
Reportedly, The AI CEO Aravind Srinivas compared effective accelerationism, a philosophy movement that advocates for rapid technological progress with effective altruism, which uses evidence and reason to find the most effective ways to help.
Replying to the Aravind Srinivas Engineer Baradwaj wrote, “yup, this is why e/acc will win x.com/AravSrinivas/s…”, and paid his agreement.
Aditya Baradwaj Missed Another Job From AI Startup.
While these interactions were taking a diverse look, and getting highly viral, Aditya Baradwaj that he had recently discovered that he had missed another possible job opportunity with a second AI startup. Cursor AI’s founder had sent him five emails. “Looks like I ghosted Cursor as well,” Baradwaj said.
Social Users Reactions On this.
Social media users responded to Baradwaj’s updates with disbelief and amusement. Several users called him a “fumbler” — a tag that Baradwaj accepted.
“Biggest fumble of the century,” wrote an X user while another commented, “I am going to cry reading this.”
Another user wrote supporting the decision regarding perplexity, “I’d argue that’s not necessarily a bad decision. The outcome was poor. But the decision sounds logical (good current role, startup is more risk, etc)”.
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