Ashwini Asokan, founder and CEO of enterprise AI startup Mad Street Den, describes the early growth velocity and geographic distribution of customers for Vue.ai.
“So we went within 12 months, we went from zero to one for view.ai and that journey almost completely happened in the US.”
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