Asana says it serves over 150,000 customers worldwide, including 85% of the Fortune 100.
“We help over 150,000 customers globally. 85% of the Fortune hundred companies manage and automate everything from company level goal setting and tracking”
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Saket Srivastava
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Asana's platform is built on an architecture it calls the Work Graph data model.
“the architecture on which our platform's built on, we call it the Work graph data model.”
Asana runs a think tank called the Work Innovation Lab that brings industry and academia together.
“We've got a think tank, we call it Work Innovation Lab. It's a think tank that brings industry and academia together”
Asana's Work Innovation Lab includes institutions such as Anthropic and OpenAI and publishes reports based on surveys and interviews.
“institutions like Anthropic and OpenAI. And through research, through surveys and interviews, we publish multiple reports”
Asana's state of AI report found a disconnect between how leaders and their organizations think about AI.
“there's a state of AI report that we launched more recently, which showed that there is a disconnect in how leaders are thinking about AI”
Saket Srivastava says COVID raised the profile of CIOs because they had to make companies work remotely almost overnight.
“COVID put us into the limelight. We were responsible to make sure that overnight companies were now functioning effectively in a remote setup.”
Saket Srivastava studied computer science at undergraduate and postgraduate level and began in technology services before moving to enterprise IT.
“I did my undergrad and postgrad in computer science, started working in technology, started with maybe more services, and then at some point in time pivoted to the enterprise side of IT.”
Saket Srivastava recalls IT being called on mainly when things broke, such as missing shipments or finance being unable to close its books.
“The only times we were called upon was when there was some shipment that had gone missing, or finance was not able to close their books.”
Saket Srivastava describes Asana's AI teammates as AI integrated into core workflows that can take action on behalf of humans, not just assist.
“Think of any function and the kind of core workflows that they utilize, and how can AI not just assist, but also take action on behalf of humans in those core workflows.”
Saket Srivastava says program managers may spend a couple of hours a week per program writing status reports, which Asana's AI can automate.
“Just imagine if you're a program manager spending couple of hours a week on each program, writing those status reports that no one ends up reading.”