Summary
Ashish Singal is a founder and AI product leader with 10 years of experience building and scaling ML-driven products across startups and tech giants. Currently CEO of Elegance Labs, he’s exploring how dramatically cheaper AI-generated video changes content creation economics. Previously he led algorithm and recommender innovations at Instagram and built ads-signal solutions at Google, plus founded and exited a data-integration startup acquired by Nexla. His background spans finance and engineering—earlier in his career he traded swaps at HSBC and studied Industrial Engineering at Northwestern—bringing quantitative rigor to product strategy. Known for testing bold hypotheses (e.g., computers predicting bond prices, treating humans as AI training data), he combines product intuition with hands-on AI experimentation. Based in New York, he favors pragmatic, hypothesis-driven builds that push 0-to-1 outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Northwestern University