Farid Ahsan is the Founder & CEO of General Autonomy, leading product development and all things business. At age 22, Farid also cofounded ShareChat, India's largest homegrown social media company, and was the Chief Operating Officer till March 2023, before founding General Autonomy in early 2024.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Farid has a BTech degree in
Material Science and Engineering. He started programming at age 12 and built India's first amateur snake robot in 2011. Besides being a founder, Farid is an avid investor in startups, having invested in more than 50 startups till date, notably companies like Eplane, Giva, Shopflo, and Masai among others.
