Ashwini Asokan
6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 7, 2020 by Ashwini Asokan · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Dec 7, 2020
Asokan: Scaling to $10M ARR requires treating organization-building like product development
“I think if I had to equate building a startup till that, that, that kind of a 10 mil milestone, it's really all about, it's almost like building a product. You've got to iterate. You've got to have your scrums. You've got to have your monthly releases. You've …”
Dec 7, 2020 negative
Asokan: Off-the-shelf AI components fail to solve specific business problems
“Especially in the space of AI we were strong believers that picking up off the shelf components was not necessarily very helpful all the time because, you know, they're built for scale, for generic problems. They don't necessarily solve specific problems very …”
Dec 7, 2020 negative
Asokan: Without widespread literacy, a handful of elites will dictate AI's future
“Because I see the world in the future being completely AI filled. And I think if we all don't figure out how to get people to be a part of that AI future, then you're just going to be, you know, having a handful of people who are going to be dictating what you…”
Dec 7, 2020 negative
Asokan: Founders should avoid consuming generic startup scaling playbooks
“I'm just totally done with that, that, that, you know, I'm just done with that genre of startup books for, I think I've had enough of it. And so I think you know, it's messed with me if anything. So I'm going to actively tell everybody listening to the Podcast…”
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Asokan: Deep tech startups must hire product marketers on day zero
“And so for me, like, you know, I always tell people, make sure you have a product marketing person on day zero. Especially if you're a deep tech company, especially if you're a B to B SaaS company, you really have to talk about the value of your product from a…”
Dec 28, 2020 positive
Exfinity backed Mad Street Den for its pragmatic enterprise AI vision
“One is that we actually both Ashwini and Anand have been really stellar founders. I think what we liked about them is the fact that how they were looking at the application of AI, you know, so AI per se, a lot of funds do it. And every second company that you …”