Podcast highlights:

13:45 Oscar Ramos talks about how engineers in China can get direct access to product creation. This is a competitive advantage that is difficult to get anywhere else in the world.

33:06 Only what you bring to the table matters. Leave your history, where you're from and your baggage behind. What are the tangible benefits of this mindset in the startup ecosystem?

35:57 How can you get involved in Shanghai and China? Just get on the plane and turn up or is there a more systematic approach?

Podcast notes:

00:05 ATP630 - Asia Matters with Oscar Ramos, Geoffrey Handley and Kapil Kane hosted by Graham Brown at Chinaccelerator Shanghai

01:08 Oscar Ramos's journey from Spain to Shanghai

02:32 What was Shenzhen and China like 11 years ago when Kapil Kane first arrived?

04:37 Oscar's experience of arriving in a pre-Olympic Beijing in 2007 and how the language barrier became a learning opportunity

07:00 The funny story of how Oscar left his suitcase at the airport on his first day in China - a good start!

08:44 Kapil's transition from Silicon Valley into China back in 2005

13:45 Oscar Ramos talks about how engineers in China can get direct access to product creation. This is a competitive advantage that is difficult to get anywhere else in the world.

15:50 Does your perspective on technology change after moving to China?

17:49 Graham's observations about the special 'holiday' energy in the startup ecosystem in China. We recorded this podcast on a national holiday in China. Despite that, the offices at Chinaccelerator were packed.

20:32 What is it about China, Shanghai in particular, that can't be found elsewhere?

24:20 Geoffrey Handley joins the conversation ad shares a little from his own experience on what makes Shanghai special

27:30 Geoffrey's initial impression of China as a 13 year old

30:19 Oscar's views on how it is often easier to communicate with a person from a different country. We share more in common by virtue of the fact we've left our countries and we're entrepreneurs

31:25 The increasingly redundant question of 'where are you from?'

33:06 Only what you bring to the table matters. Leave your history, where you're from and your baggage behind. What are the tangible benefits of this mindset in the startup ecosystem?

34:58 A big shout out to from Graham to students Elliot, Shaun and Paritosh! Here are 3 NYU students who left the US for a semester and "showed up" in China to learn Mandarin and a little on how China works.

35:57 How can you get involved in Shanghai and China? Just get on the plane and turn up or is there a more systematic approach?