Aashna Doshi Leaves Google to Co-Found Pre-Revenue AI Marketplace Bounty After 100,000 Podcast Views

3 articles · Updated · The Economic Times · Jun 25

Bounty, an outcome-based AI marketplace co-founded by former Google engineer Aashna Doshi, is now pre-revenue as she leaves Big Tech to scale the startup full time.
Google, she said, offered strong learning opportunities but not the creative control or direct impact she wanted, while the AI boom made the timing feel right for a riskier move.
100,000 YouTube views in under a year helped Doshi's "0 to 1" podcast become a networking engine, opening access to senior leaders at companies including Amazon and Microsoft.
Bounty lets businesses outsource work such as lead generation, customer outreach and recruitment sourcing, with payments tied to successful outcomes rather than hours worked.

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