Overview
- Gauri Agarwal, KoyalAI’s co-founder and CTO, fixed what her brother called a critical bug roughly 10 minutes after her wedding ceremony, in a photo he said was not staged and that drew scolding from their parents.
- Mehul Agarwal’s posts on X and LinkedIn went viral across platforms and produced polarized reactions, with many users questioning startup hustle norms and the need for a founder to intervene at a wedding.
- In a follow-up, Mehul wrote that Gauri was taking meetings about three hours a day during her honeymoon, adding jokingly that her husband was unhappy.
- Responding to criticism, Gauri posted a lighthearted remark that sitting through long Indian wedding receptions can make anyone want to code.
- Coverage notes the siblings are San Francisco–based Carnegie Mellon and MIT alumni who founded KoyalAI in 2025, with some reports citing Tracxn’s description of the startup as unfunded and having run pilots with Universal Music and T‑Series.