One Knight in Product

Chinese Startup Culture & Putting the Minimum into MVP (with Carlos Lastres, Creative & Marketing Director @ Kaiyan Medical)

Listen Later

An interview with Carlos Lastres. Carlos is the Creative & Marketing Director at Kaiyan Medical, a Chinese company creating light therapy products. Carlos is obviously an advocate for light therapy but also an engineer turned designer who is loving life in China.

We talk about a lot, including:

  • Light therapy - what the heck is it? Does it really work?
  • How he became a convert to light therapy by chance when working on a design brief for Kaiyan Medical and why he decided to stay
  • Some of the differences and similarities between creating digital products & hardware products
  • How 3D printing makes all the difference when trying to get an MVP out of a hardware product
  • How his frustration with badly designed software applications as a developer led him to pursue a career in product design
  • How he went from an MBA and software development background to developing the design hard skills he needed
  • How Chinese startups build products and how is it so different from how Western countries do it
  • Whether Chinese users appreciate the constant flow of limited MVPs or whether it limits the ability to truly learn
  • How he got involved with TEDx, how it went, and why you shouldn't follow your dreams

    • And much more!

    Contact Carlos

    You can reach out to Carlos on LinkedIn or LastresCarlos.com.

    You can check out Kaiyan Medical on KaiyanMedical.com.

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    One Knight in ProductBy One Knight in Product
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7

    4.7

    14 ratings

    More shows like One Knight in Product

    View all
    Acquired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

    Acquired

    4,654 Listeners

    Pivot by New York Magazine

    Pivot

    9,526 Listeners

    The a16z Show by Andreessen Horowitz

    The a16z Show

    1,090 Listeners

    HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

    HBR IdeaCast

    164 Listeners

    How I Built This with Guy Raz by Guy Raz | Wondery

    How I Built This with Guy Raz

    30,192 Listeners

    Masters of Scale by WaitWhat

    Masters of Scale

    3,990 Listeners

    The Intelligence from The Economist by The Economist

    The Intelligence from The Economist

    2,554 Listeners

    All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg by All-In Podcast, LLC

    All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

    9,938 Listeners

    Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

    Dwarkesh Podcast

    517 Listeners

    Hard Fork by The New York Times

    Hard Fork

    5,509 Listeners

    Product Thinking by Melissa Perri

    Product Thinking

    148 Listeners

    The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis by Nathaniel Whittemore

    The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

    611 Listeners

    The Economics of Everyday Things by Freakonomics Network & Zachary Crockett

    The Economics of Everyday Things

    1,663 Listeners

    Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson by Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson

    Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

    96 Listeners

    Prof G Markets by Vox Media Podcast Network

    Prof G Markets

    1,423 Listeners