
In this third Episode of the AI Business Asia Podcast, Leo Jiang interviewed Andrew Senduk ( Managing Director of Workmate ). The Episode covers a wide range of topics, including how Andrew built the fastest-growing AI Startup in the Asia Region and his journey from selling pillows to Managing 600K Workers.
00:00 Introduction to Workmate 02:10 Andrew's Journey 03:50 $40,000 sales in 24 Hours 09:00 Business Problem Workmate is solving 12:58 Business Model of Workmate 14:00 Biggest Problem for Employers 14:40 Use of AI on the Platform 15:50 Data Collection Techniques from the workforce 17:50 Demographic Data & Usecase 18:30 Use of Industry Specific Datapoints 20:00 How to handle Different Markets 21:55 Onboarding & AI Tools 26:35 How to Convince people to Adapt new technology 29:00 Opportunity for AI & Tech revolution in China 33:11 How Workmate survived Covid Difficulties 35:30 How Workmate would differentiate from Competition 36:00 What is the biggest AI Use case in company 37:49 What is the retention period for Data? 40:50 Future Aspirations 46:00 Andrew's Book (Ignite Millennial Leadership) 52:40 Tips for Working with VC