Mad Street Den: Enterprise AI for the World, Built Out of Chennai

The dawn of AI is upon us and Enterprise AI is finally getting its time in the sun. With more people experimenting with the likes of Chat GPT, Dall-E, and Midjourney, companies are also moving swiftly to implement AI tools to help them drive productivity and efficiency. One person who’s been building AI tools for over a decade is Ashwini Asokan. In 2013, she left her job as a designer at Intel and teamed up with her husband, Anand Chandrasekaran, a neuroscientist, to launch Mad Street Den, a computer vision and artificial intelligence company. On this episode of Moonshot, we chat with Ashwini about the current state of Enterprise AI, how Mad Street Den is setting itself apart from its competitors, and what it takes to build a global artificial intelligence company out of India.

Introduction [00:30]
Consumer AI vs Enterprise AI [03:26]
Different industries have the same data problems [09:55]
AI automation: Freeing you up to do “the job you should have been doing in the first place.” [13:58]
Entering the era of Enterprise AI [22:44]
Do you need to raise a ton of capital to get into Artificial Intelligence? [26:59]
Raising the next generation to be AI native [31:03]