Asia Tech Podcast

EP 173 - Jostein Aksnes - CEO Seven Peaks Software - Sell From Day One

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The Asia Tech Podcast was visited by Jostein Aksnes, the CEO of Seven Peaks Software and the CEO of Property Flow. Like a lot of my expatriate friends, Jostein agreed to a one-year assignment and shows no signs of leaving Thailand.

Some of the topics Jostein covered:

  • Studied computer engineering
  • Got his first job as a software developer at a broadcast technology company
  • Managed and built real-time graphics and production systems
  • Getting promoted and expatriated to Thailand
  • Has now lived in Thailand since 2010
  • Building and managing remote or extension teams
  • Some of the challenges and solutions when the head office is on another continent
  • Building FindYourSpace which morphed into Property Flow
  • Diving deep into Seven Peaks
  • The evolution of software development
  • Microservices and the Cloud
  • The validated learning loop 
  • Building great user experiences
  • Selling solutions to problems

    • Other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. I Want to Build a Website
    2. Trying to Build What They Need, Not What They Want
    3. The Commercial Model Is Not Agile
    4. Don’t Spend Two Years Building a Product
    5. Nobody Buys a Product
      6. ...more
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