An Indo-Mool startup founder is being slammed online for his blunt response to a viral post of a former employee, which has been fired. The controversy exploded when Namya Khan, now the co-founder of the design agency Supfast, shared a post on X how he was fired from his first technical job in 2023. Without mentioning the name of the company, he is being told by his product manager that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could repair it soon, just a month ago he was fired. But instead of spring, Ms. Khan said that she used that moment as an inspiration to start her business.
“It was the best thing to be fired back, which was ever with me,” Ms. Khan wrote“Lesson: If it doesn’t matter in five years, do not give it a five -minute nervousness. Zoom out. Your worst day may be your biggest twist.”
After Ms. Khan’s post went viral, her former boss, one of the co-founders of the startup, accused her of incorrectly presenting the situation to attain sympathy and independent customers. In response to his tweet, Dardok co-founder Keswin Suresh claimed that Ms. Khan’s job loss had nothing to do with AI, and was actually due to his poor performance. He said, “The truth is simple. The work was dirty, the time limit was missed, and the basic execution was constantly closed. This AI was not replacing the job. It was not doing any work,” he wrote.
Namya was hired as a friend developer. He was given more support, detailed response, and more support than most startups. The truth is simple. The work was dirty, the time limit was missed, and the basic execution was constantly closed. It was not the place of one … https://t.co/u02ye2pzos
– Keswin (@Keswins) 30 April, 2025
In addition, Mr. Keswin called Ms. Khan’s post “Sob Story”. “We are happy that she is running her own agency. We are not here to block anyone’s growth. But do not write history again. Do not bend the facts. And don’t pull the company that gave you your first shot in your personal PR strategy. You were not replaced by AI.
Mr. Keswin’s post quickly attracted the attention of the Internet, in which many users call entrepreneurs “unprofessional”. Some users also called their public statement unnecessarily, especially since Ms. Khan has never made the company name or embarrassed.
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“Regrets to say, but it is not how a founder reacts. There was no need to tell his pre-employee here that she does not name any organization here. Even if you think it needs it, no ideal leadership quality,” a user wrote. “It is impossible to mention how badly you are harming your own reputation here. He has never named your company, but now you are sharing screenshots of his email that are written with respectable professionalism,” another commented.
“If you intended to retaliate because she was giving a bad name to your company, you missed your startup look.”
One user wrote, “Word of Advisory-Do not burn his company’s rape and goodwill online at tight-for-tat with X-employees online. He did not even name the company, but you were triggered and publicly released the file to his personnel,” a user wrote.
“While she can be clicked, I still get a bad style to call a former employee from a founder in public.