Asia Tech Podcast

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Jim Sailor has almost two decades of experience doing market and marketing research for some of the world's largest brands. Even more interesting is that he has done most of that work and built most of that business in China. Jim studied Mandarin Chinese before it was cool and it has come in handy in his life's endeavors. Jim has studied Behavioral Science and is applying it to better understand "risk perception" and its application to the adoption of new technologies. Learning how this application helps his clients make better business decisions alone was very interesting, but we covered much more ground than that.

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Gang Lu has a MSc and PhD in Wireless Communications and he is a true passionate believer in technology and the internet. Almost 10 years ago, he started blogging about technology in China and Asia as a hobby and was spending so much time and effort doing so, that he decided to turn his passion into a business. While still based in the U.K., he began building Mobinode in earnest and turned it into the business we know as technode.com today. Technode is the leading technology and internet focused blog in China and is published in both Mandarin and English. Gang's vision is to continue to provide a bridge between China's startups, angel investors, venture capitalists and the entire entrepreneurial community to the rest of the world. During this conversation Gang shared his experiences, ups and downs and entrepreneurial journey with us. A fascinating look inside the world of media, partnerships and blogging in China.

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Sujaree (Pom) Xu is from Bangkok, Thailand. She attended Triam Udon Suksa School, which is considered the top public high school in Thailand. Pom excelled academically and made time for extracurricular activities as well. She was an incredibly well rounded young adult and a self proclaimed "nerdy student". She vividly remembers a rainy day conversation she had with her mother when she was a young girl sitting in her mother's car in traffic...her mother planted a seed and encouraged her to try to get into a top U.S. University...She graduated from Harvard less than a decade later. She has accomplished a lot and continues to do so...we had an in depth conversation about her journey that has currently led her to a leadership role at Crimson Education.

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Bernard Leong has been involved in the tech startup space for as long as it has existed in Singapore. He has been (and still is!) a founder, investor, mentor, fund manager and thought leader...among many other things. We had a wide ranging discussion on the development of "Analyse Asia" his flagship podcast and the growth of the technology industry in Singapore. Bernard and I talked about this strategy for building his podcast, which included getting well known interview subjects onto his show from other publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunh. We also discussed his investment thesis and how he likes to make investment decisions within the first 15 minutes of meeting the founders. Bernard takes a scientific and analytical view on just about everything. Maybe that is what has made him so successful

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Alvin Wang Graylin is the China Regional President of Vive (VIVE.com) at HTC, leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the 300-member company Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com), President of the $18B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR accelerator (VIVEX.co) in Asia. Alvin spoke to ATP at length about how Virtual Reality will literally impact every aspect of our lives...while most people think of gaming and entertainment when considering VR, Alvin was passionate about how Virtual Reality tools could radically change the way we educate and get educated. Listen very carefully as Alvin explains how immersive VR experiences, tested in real classrooms in China, can completely recalibrate a student's ability to learn even the most difficult subjects.

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This week we're all about coworking spaces. With the recent $4.4 billion investment by Softbank into WeWork and the merger of JustCo & Naked Hub, cowowrking in Asia is booming in 2017. So, where are the best spaces in Asia and why is coworking so popular? Graham and Michael discuss coworking in Asia as well as the latest ATP Award for Best Coworking Space Asia 2017.

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We had a great conversation with Tim Romero. Tim is a long time Tokyo hand whose first introduction to Japan was after signing a record deal for his band. While this did not last long, Tim went back to Los Angeles, worked for a Software company that sent him back to Tokyo and after working in the IT department at a global financial firm, he got bitten by the startup bug. Tim now writes on entrepreneurship, podcasts about startups and advises foreign companies on how to enter the market in Japan. Tim also runs an interesting podcast of his own called "Disrupting Japan".

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Tak Lo is the founder of Zeroth.ai - the Artificial Intelligence accelerator based in Hong Kong. In this interview we covered the "why" questions - why do we need AI-specific accelerator programs for startups? why did Tak get into this space in the first space? why is Tak the right person to mentor and lead a new generation of Artificial Intelligence startup founders in Asia?

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Florian Cornu originates from France and has been living in Southeast Asia for 8 years. Florian joined the fast moving digital world by starting a company at StartUp Weekend in Singapore. FLocations was founded on the premise that Southeast Asia provided the perfect opportunity to build a travel site based on destination discovery and weekend getaways as opposed to picking a location first and then determine how to best get there. Florian's love of maps lead him and the team to innovate around maps as a discovery mechanism, used to show what was close by and spark interest in travel that way. His innovations lead to great traction and interest from investors and ultimately lead to the sale of FLocations to Kei Shibata's group of Japan based travel assets. Listen to Florian as he tells the story of his inspiration, his learnings and how he employs that knowledge and experience to help budding entrepreneurs raise capital and build their businesses.

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Sangwon Park is a Math and Computer Science guy...I am already impressed. I will admit that I tend to like anybody that lists their first employment as "guitarist, van driver, map reader" and then notes that he also has a masters degree in Computer Science. Sangwon is also the Founder and CEO of Favorite Medium...an enterprise that builds digital products with a tangible purpose. With offices in Singapore, Japan, South Korea and the United States, Favorite Medium is a truely global business. We had a wide ranging discussion that included AR / VR, software development, technology market gaps and the challenges of running distributed teams. It was really interesting to get Sangwon's perspective on growing a business from scratch and developing software in a fast moving development environment.