Daksh Gupta Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Daksh Gupta

• In July 2019, Daksh Gupta received a certification in the International Baccalaureate.

• In 2021, he worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Qualcomm in San Diego, California, United States.

• In 2022, Daksh Gupta joined Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer Intern in Seattle, Washington, United States.

• While studying at Georgia Institute of Technology, he and his friends, Soohoon Choi and Vaishant Kameswaran, started working on AI projects in 2022.

• Their first idea was to collect reviews from Reddit to help people buy products more carefully.

• The project did not continue for long. However, it led to their first big opportunity. They received a $100,000 investment from technology billionaire Christopher Klaus, who had also studied at the same college.

• In 2023, they changed their focus and started making tools for software engineers. At first, the company was called Onboard AI, but later, they renamed it Greptile.

• After that, they raised $5.3 million in seed funding. They then created a small and close team working from San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid.

  

  Daksh Gupta with his teammates

• Daksh Gupta often mentions in the media that he is the lowest-paid person on his team. He says that this is a choice to save money and to show that he is ready to sacrifice like the others.

• In 2023, he co-founded Greptile, an AI startup, and became its full-time CEO in San Francisco, California.

• The startup is supported by Y Combinator, Initialised Capital, Paul Graham, SV Angel, and others.

  

  Daksh Gupta while promoting his venture

• In 2024, Daksh Gupta was criticised online for saying that people should work 14 hours a day. He stood by his view and claimed that many Silicon Valley tech workers already work about 12 hours a day, six days a week.

• According to him, his company follows the 9-9-6 routine, i.e. working from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week.

  

  Daksh Gupta at his workplace

• Apart from work, Daksh Gupta also suggests physical fitness, early marriage, tracking sleep, and eating a diet of steak and eggs. Once, during a media conversation, he talked about his work fundamentals. He said,
  

  The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6 [work from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs.”

• In his company, he has made it clear that all Greptile employees must work from the San Francisco office. He does not allow remote work.

• Daksh Gupta has openly said that he does not believe in work-life balance.

• In November 2024, he said in the media that his inbox was filled with about 20% death threats. The remaining 80% were job applications.

• Daksh Gupta then faced racial criticism about his strict work style. He rejected the idea that it comes from his Indian heritage. He explained by saying that he works this way because he was a San Franciscan, not because he was Indian.

• In August 2025, when he announced new job openings at his San Francisco startup, he said that the employees were expected to work 12-14 hours every day. At the same time, he pointed out the good pay and benefits offered to staff. Daksh Gupta wrote on X,
  

  Recently I started telling candidates right in the first interview that Greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9 am and end at 11 pm, often later, and we work Saturdays, sometimes also Sundays.”

  

  Daksh Gupta while working on weekends

• He said that Greptile’s engineers could have chosen easier jobs in big tech companies, but they decided to work with him.

• After this, Daksh Gupta became seen as a symbol of the AI boom’s hard-work culture.

• He often makes small angel investments in startups run by his friends or family, such as Gumloop, Octolane, Automorphic, Bland AI, and HappyBoards.

• Daksh Gupta has worked as a singer and songwriter. His song ‘Pastor’ was once listed on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart for 3 weeks.

• He likes travelling to distant places, enjoying Saturday night life, and reading books in his free time. Once, he talked about his favourite books in a media conversation. He said,
  

  I like reading, anything from Murakami, to Economics, to Paul Graham essays. I maintain a map of SF which is useful if you’re moving here to work on startups and want to know where to live.”