Podcast highlights:
02:00 The 3 wave Cultural Acceptance of Asia. How entrepreneurs moving to Asia are changing in their reasons for migrating - Pioneers, Opportunists and Followers
12:00 When massive change happens, we rarely have the ability to identify and name it, example being The Reformation (nobody called it The Reformation when it was happening). Are we seeing a similar change in the shift from West to East?
45:05 Now Jack Ma has blazed a trail, will the Western Media entertain more entrepreneurs from Asia?
Podcast notes:
00:05 ATP570 - Asia Matters with Graham Brown
00:50 If Asia Matters enough people will pay the price and uproot from their homes to move there
02:00 The 3 wave Cultural Acceptance of Asia. How entrepreneurs moving to Asia are changing in their reasons for migrating - Pioneers, Opportunists and Followers
03:30 Jim Rogers - if you were smart move to Asia quote
05:30 Moving to Japan, Asia in 1995 at the end of the Japanese Bubble era
07:10 Asian opportunities back in the 1990s
07:55 Phase 1 of people moving to Asia - the Pioneers
09:00 Phase 2 - the Opportunists
10:10 Why is 2020 a key date in the rise of Asia?
12:00 When massive change happens, we rarely have the ability to identify and name it, example being The Reformation (nobody called it The Reformation when it was happening). Are we seeing a similar change in the shift from West to East?
14:15 We are in the middle of a massive shift from The West to The East but haven't named it yet
17:50 All empires fade... but people don't see it happen
20:30 Are Western Millennials really the "Entrepreneurial Generation"?
27:00 28% of Silicon Valley startups are connected to immigrants - the hungry ones
30:00 What are the opportunities for female entrepreneurs in Asia?
30:50 Comparison of economic earning potential of Chinese, Indians and Americans
31:25 Vietnam is open to globalization, immigration and entrepreneurship
32:00 Megacities again! Looking at the engines of growth again. There are 15 cities in China alone bigger than New York
32:30 60 million people and $2 trillion GDP in the Greater Bay of China, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Patents
34:00 The ecosystem Tipping Point - what % of the population need to be entrepreneurs?
35:00 Are prices in Silicon Valley crowding out the smaller startups in favor of the Linkedins, Googles and Facebooks of this world?
36:20 The 5 fastest growing Megacities in Asia aren't in China but in India and Vietnam - Delhi, Ho Chi Minh City, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai. Their GDPs are growing at 7-8% a year. Their GDP will 4x in 20 years.
39:45 There are many tech startup ecosystems to choose from in Asia that aren't China
41:55 What's going to happen the next 5 years in migration from the West to the East and how are their reasons for moving going to change?
45:05 Now Jack Ma has blazed a trail, will the Western Media entertain more entrepreneurs from Asia?
49:10 Kai-Fu Lee (ex Google / Apple China) on entrepreneurialism in China
53:00 The 3 critical factors a city needs to become a world-class startup ecosystem