{"id":1005669,"date":"2026-04-29T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005669"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:40:35","slug":"indian-origin-engineers-missed-call-idea-is-now-a-1-billion-ai-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/indian-origin-engineers-missed-call-idea-is-now-a-1-billion-ai-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian origin engineer\u2019s \u2018missed call\u2019 idea is now a $1 billion AI startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 answering machines. <\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 all by missing a customer call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 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 \u2013 all by missing a customer call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}