New Delhi, May 25 -- Some startups seem to be trapped in a pattern: Build. Scale. Bleed. Repeat. The latest collapse is Builder.ai, a company that claims to build an AI-powered composable software platform enabling every business and entrepreneur to become digitally empowered. The company has gone bankrupt. The reason: no cash left to burn. Looking at these companies, their playbook is familiar - project a big service or product, and create the required optics: "We're building for tomorrow." But over time, tomorrow becomes a moving target. Hope turns into habit. Growth turns into compulsion, trapped in optimism.

In a LinkedIn post recently, the company announced: "Today, Engineer.ai Corporation, known as Builder.ai, will be entering into...