Paul Papadimitriou has definitely seen different corners of the world. In this episode, we explore some large trends in the world, how Asia differentiates itself from other continents and his passion for Japan. We also talked about how culture impacts technology and vice versa. Paul also promised to speak fluent Japanese in ten years, so we will try to hold him to that promise. Expect a very one-sided podcast in ten years!

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Here’s some quotes from the episode:

[On LeWeb] : It almost sounds like you said ‘European Conference’? I would mostly say it’s a US conference that happens to be in Europe, which explains its success..

People are going to still engage online, but what I’m most interested in is how companies should react to that, because up to now it was a lot of shotgun policy..

So I ended up creating my own business, because I said ‘Ok, let’s shape Tokyo the way I want it to be. Let’s shape my world how I want it to be’.