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IIT Kanpur alumnus earns $8 million in one day

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Siddhartha Saxena, co-founder of Merlin, made $8 million in a single day at age 26.
Merlin is a ChatGPT Chrome extension startup valued at $50 million.
Saxena studied Computer Science at IIT Kanpur, graduating in 2019.
He co-founded Merlin in 2022 with IIT Kanpur friends Pratyush Rai and Sirsendu Sarkar.
Saxena is also co-founder of Thine and previously worked at Jumio Corporation as a Machine Learning Engineer.
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