‘I hope 2025 doesn’t…’ Entrepreneur makes heartfelt request for new year after a tough 2024
Live MintShakti Mani Tripathi, co-founder of artificial intelligence solutions start-up Reflecc, took to the social media platform X at the end of the year to reflect on his career. Sharing that he left a well-paying ₹1 crore job at Amazon to start his first AI company, which failed, Tripathi ended the post with a hope for 2025 to be a “kind” year. New Direction, Pivots & More… Not all was downhill for Tripathi, post Hoobahoo, he met his co-founder via YCombinator and began building Reflecc AI, where the duo has seen a learning curve. Pivoted after realising and verifying our thesis that “One cannot RIGHTFULLY measure the productivity of a software engineer,” as there is too much qualitative nuance.” “Started building Codermon AI: an AI Agent for developers’ ad-hoc tasks.