New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- A software engineer has taken to social media to express his regret at turning down a job offer from Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin CEO of AI search engine Perplexity AI. Aditya Baradwaj recently shared a screenshot of his conversation with Srinivas from July 2022, in which he was offered the opportunity to become a founding engineer at what would later emerge as a significant player in artificial intelligence.

At the time, however, Baradwaj opted for what seemed to be a more secure career path, declining the offer in favour of continuing his work at Alameda Research/FTX. Reflecting on his decision, he admitted his regret in a post on X, writing, "I said no because of how well things were going at Alameda Resea...