{"id":434318,"date":"2026-07-16T23:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/mad-street-den-built-the-future-of-ai-then-its-founders-walked-away-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:44:10","slug":"mad-street-den-built-the-future-of-ai-then-its-founders-walked-away-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/mad-street-den-built-the-future-of-ai-then-its-founders-walked-away-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Street Den built the future of AI. Then its founders walked away. &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-12\">\n<h2>The OG of AI<\/h2>\n<p>Mad Street Den, or MSD, was one of India\u2019s first serious AI companies long before generative AI became a buzzword. When Asokan later wrote to early investors to tell them that she, the chief executive, and Chandrasekaran, the chief technology officer, were winding down the company, many replied with the same line: MSD, and its internal platform Vue.ai, had been the OG of AI in this part of the world, a full decade too early.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OG of AI Mad Street Den, or MSD, was one of India\u2019s first serious AI companies long before generative AI became a buzzword. When Asokan later wrote to early investors to tell them that she, the chief executive, and Chandrasekaran, the chief technology officer, were winding down the company, many replied with the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48010,48007,284,48006,263,262,260,2539,48009,259,258,48008,48004,48005,265,202,261,48011,264],"class_list":["post-434318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaverse","tag-ai-entrepreneurship","tag-anand-chandrasekaran","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ashwini-asokan","tag-axie-infinity","tag-axs","tag-decentraland","tag-deep-tech","tag-enterprise-ai-startup","tag-facebook","tag-game","tag-india-ai-startup","tag-mad-street-den","tag-mad-street-den-founders","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-nft","tag-sandbox","tag-startup-founder-journey","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434323,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434318\/revisions\/434323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}