My guest for Ep215 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Ben Dunphy.

Ben is the Co-Founder and Partner of January Capital, a VC fund that invests in early stage high growth startups in the Asia Pacific region. They also run an $85M growth credit fund, offering scale-stage companies access to non-dilutive capital.

I first had Ben on the show back in October 2016 and nearly a decade later, we revisit the journey and dive into:

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