Indian origin engineer’s ‘missed call’ idea is now a $1 billion AI startup
At a time when Silicon Valley is lapping up AI startups, which rely on cutting-edge AI tech to woo customers, promising to disrupt the world as we know it, a small startup with an Indian-origin co-founder at the helm is making billions in fortune by utilising a technology so basic that nobody thought of addressing – answering machines.
Apurva Shrivastava and his work partner, Tyson Chen, looked at the concept of missed calls and utilised the latest in AI tech to help a business that was losing up $40,000 – all by missing a customer call.
