Under the impact of COVID-19, remote work has become an irreversible trend. International talent acquisition and management has become an emerging tide. What kind of role does Taiwan play in this new trend? 

The competence of Taiwanese top talents is undoubted and recognized around the world. However, the domestic job market lacks suitable opportunities which meet their expectations. Good news is : Silicon Valley startups have begun to seek talents abroad actively since August, 2021. Moreover, they offer generous treatment to international top talents. So, how to successfully connect Taiwanese top talents with Silicon Valley?

We invited two veterans in talent acquisition: Gene Chuang, mentor at Mucker Capital and also the founder of CTO slackers who has experience in management of the U.S. CTO network and Tiwen Lin, the founder of Silicon Valley talent acquisition startup Worca, to share their experience about international talent acquisition and the prospect and development of these talents in the U.S.

Highlight:
🧑‍🤝‍🧑How Gene comes to his position now?
🧑‍🤝‍🧑What is CTO “slacker”?
🧑‍🤝‍🧑What kind of contribution that CTO slackers makes for talent acquisition?
🧑‍🤝‍🧑What are the advantages and challenges for hiring remote teams?
🧑‍🤝‍🧑What do they do to facilitate the recruit process? 
🧑‍🤝‍🧑Advice for startups who want to minimize challenges?

Host: Jeremy Olivier, senior editor of AmCham Taiwan
Guest: Gene Chuang, founder of CTO slackers and mentor @Mucker Capital
Tiwen Lin, founder of Worca
 
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Warren Buffett announced last week that he bought TSMC Stock - American Depositary Receipts (ADR), which is worth more than 4.1 billion dollars. This is a rare major investment in the technology sector by Buffett's conglomerate. How is TSMC favored by international investors?

Be Everyone's Foundry, that is the main strategy of TSMC. In the 1980s, Taiwanese government planned to cultivate the semiconductor industry for Taiwan's economic development. Then, TSMC was founded.

TSMC's achievement lies in changing the global semiconductor division of labor. Before Morris Chang, wafer foundry was considered an impossible task since customers were afraid of leaking or plagiarizing chip designs, so they were reluctant to hand over chips to foundries for manufacturing. However, TSMC has persuaded a huge number of companies with its high-standard integrity management. TSMC has now become the largest semiconductor fabrication plant in the world.

Outline :
📀 Beginning: reasons behind TSMC’s foundation
📀 Development: significant players in TSMC’s history
📀 Competition: ITRI, UMC and TSMC
📀 Summit: No.1 semiconductor manufacturer in the world
📀 Reflection: the inspiration of TSMC’s huge success

Host:Asianometry, Deep tech channel with 350k followers, still growing
Guest: Tim Koay, Historian on Taiwan Early Stage Semiconductor Initiative

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With the advent of the global space age, countries are competing with each other for a foothold in outer space. What role does Taiwan play in this space competition?

Among the 105 low earth orbit satellites launched by Space X in January 2022, one of them is a " spherical-motor-based " microsatellite developed by Taiwanese space startup Tensor Technology. The 22-year-old founder of Tensor Technology, Thomas Yen and his entrepreneurial partners have built the world's one and only spherical motor for commercial use. Through their satellite attitude control system, it saves 2/3 of the space and volume of the satellite, and nearly save one hundred thousand dollars cost in one launch.

Yen also mentions that the advantages of developing the space industry in Taiwan are that the electronics industry is well-founded, the OEM supply chain is complete and intensive, and components can be produced quickly. For example, after a product is designed in Taipei, it can be produced in the Hsinchu Science Industrial Park. The two places are close to each other so that they can often communicate and coordinate with manufacturers in person to ensure the quality of product.

Outline :
🚀What is Tensor’s main mission and idea?
🚀What kind of product does Tensor provide?
🚀Why satellite minimization matters?
🚀What are the advantages of Taiwan’s supply chain?
🚀The future of space industry

Host: Uly Su, Entrepreneur In Residence @Business Next Media Corp.
Guest: Thomas Yen, Founder of Tensor Tech
 
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What makes foreigners want to settle or even naturalise in Taiwan? What’s more, they make a gigantic contribution to Taiwanese cryptocurrency ecosystem. 

“I’m convinced that the future of finance is cryptocurrency, in one form or another, and you can see that it has already become a reality,” says Leo Seewald, the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (AmCham Taiwan) and the former country head of BlackRock in Taiwan. Naturalized in Taiwan in 2020, Seewald is the director of MaiCoin, Taiwan’s largest legal digital asset trading platform. Maicoin is expected to launch a new stablecoin,Taiwan Dollar Coin (TWDC), later on this year. TWDC is a stablecoin with a 1:1 exchange rate with New Taiwan dollar, with the equivalent amount of Taiwan dollar reserved, which can be exchanged by users at any time, in order to eliminate the concerns of the Financial Supervisory Commission. The exchanged TWD is like the banknotes or coins we use every day, which are guaranteed by the central bank and will not affect the currency issuance in the real world.  
 
Meanwhile, we invited Akio Tanaka, co-founder and partner at Headline Asia and currently settled in Taiwan. Tanaka has experiences in Japanese stablecoin JPYC and he shares the process during the development of JPYC. So, what are the lessons that TWDC might learn from JPYC? What is the prospect of cryptocurrency in Taiwan or even in Asia in the next decade? Join us to find out! 

Outline :
🔗Why does cryptocurrency have yet to gain much of a foothold in Taiwan?
🔗A message for those who hesitate and suspect to invest in cryptocurrency due to Terra’s Luna stablecoin case.
🔗What are the connections between stablecoin, cryptocurrency and e-payment platforms?
🔗How can TWDC encourage saving and investing habits among young Taiwanese?
🔗The prospects of cryptocurrency in Taiwan and in Asia.

Host: Jeremy Olivier, senior editor of AmCham Taiwan
Guest: Leo Seewald, director of MaiCoin
Akio Tanaka, co-founder and partner at Headline Asia
 
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As the popularity of cryptocurrencies has increased, many companies have begun to invest in virtual currency. However, this new technology has also created new problems, that is, how to manage the "private key", which symbolizes the control of funds since once the private key is stolen or lost, the digital assets in your account will never be recoverable or cashed.

Taiwanese startup Cybavo stands out in this battle of information security. Its products build a powerful digital asset management system to protect digital assets, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance operational efficiency. The products of Cybavo are favored by the U.S. fintech unicorn Circle, which acquired Cybavo in June this year.

The partnership between CYBAVO and Circle will achieve the vision of bringing blockchain infrastructure, digital assets and digital currencies to the masses and mainstreaming Web 3.

We invited COO of Cybavo, Jordan Forssman, as our guest today to introduce Cybavo, to share their contribution in cryptocurrency security and his thoughts about the role that Taiwan plays in Web 3 ecosystem.

Outline :
✅Introduction: the CYBAVO company
✅New concept: something new that comes out of Web3
✅Web 3 security: private key, digital asset protection and risk control
✅Prospect: next step for crypto security
✅Web 3 & Taiwan: the role of Taiwan in Web 3 ecosystem


Host & Guest: Jon <> Jordan 
 
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The emergence of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin has influenced intensively the global financial situation. The extension of the blockchain, Web3, builds the foundation for the financial provision of the next generation, which is impossible to achieve with Web 1 and Web 2.

Taiwan's neo fintech Web3 startup XREX builds a bridge between cross-border, virtual and reality financial world with its blockchain technology. They successfully obtained a Money Services Business (MSB) license from the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) this year, laying a foundation in the global financial market. XREX has obtained 8 international licenses and registrations, including: United States, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia and Taiwan. They’re currently in the process of applying for licenses in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

In addition to international licenses and registrations, XREX also obtained ISO/IEC 27001 information security certification in August this year, which is a set of international standards jointly issued by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in order to verify whether the organization's information security management system (ISMS) has a complete risk assessment and management plan. XREX passed all 114 application standards without any error and spent less time than others to obtain this certification.


In this episode, we invited the Co-founder & CEO to XREX, Wayne Huang, to talk about blockchain, Web3 and his prospect toward neo fintech.

Outline :
✅What is Web 3 ? What is the relation between Web 2 and Web 3 ?
✅Does Web 3 have a certain field to develop in the near future ?
✅Any suggestions for young engineers and entrepreneur ?
✅What are the differences between working in the Bay Area and in Taiwan ?
✅In what way Taiwan can attract the oversea people to start a business here ?

Host & Guest: Uly <> Wayne
 
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Post-quantum cryptography may seem bewildered, but if we take a look at cryptography itself first, it is actually the science that builds the foundation of our information world nowadays. Ranging from communication and entertainment, to the protection of state secrets, and even the highly active blockchain technology. They all rely on cryptography as the core for subsequent development.

As for post-quantum cryptography, it is a set of theories about how to keep data transmission safe under the threat of quantum computers. With the rapid development of quantum computers, how to formulate post-quantum cryptography standards has also become an important goal of information security experts.

BTQ, a startup that builds post-quantum infrastructure to enable the next generation of energy-efficient blockchain networks. This September, ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) announced the collaboration with BTQ to develop the next-generation semiconductor technology for post-quantum cryptography. 

In this episode of Startup Island Taiwan, we invite the Chief Scientific Officer of BTQ, Chen-Mou Cheng as our guest to talk freely about quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography. 

Outline :
🔓Background : the story of Chen-Mou Cheng, the Chief Scientific Officer of BTQ
🔓Decryption : the high-level explanation of quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography
🔓Development : the impact and the importance of NIST’s (National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce) announcement of standardised PQC algorithms
🔓Collaboration : the partnership with ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute)
🔓Connection : the advantage of PQC adoption in Taiwan

Host & Guest: Jeremy <> Chen-Mou

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‘ I just want to make a call to anybody who wants to make an impact, that the idea is if you get a team with those characteristics, we want to show that yeah it’s possible, there is luck, there is timing and there’s tons of hard work and it’s beyond fulfilling that we can do something.’ says Clément Dieudonné, VP of Global Product Marketing and EMEA Sales in Ubiik

Ubiik won the bid for Taipower's 2018 Smart Meter Communication System in July 2018, which is the only startup among all bidders. From a company with less than 20 employees in the beginning, now it has expanded to a larger scale with nearly 100 employees. Moreover, it has established a solid customer base in Japan, Europe, and the United States through years of experience in global market development. Ubiik has impressive results in the domain of IoT startups.

In this episode, we invite the VP of Global Product Marketing and EMEA Sales, Clément Dieudonné, to share the pathway of the growth of Ubiik. With his pertinent point of vue, we have a chance to know the tips to the IoT startups industry : the most important elements to a startup, how to adapt to the market in a short time, how to draw sponsor’s attention, etc. Let’s find it out through this episode. 

Outline :
✅What kind of company is Ubiik? How does it become the Ubiik we see now ?
✅By the experience of cooperation between Ubiik and Taipower, how to distinguish yourselves from other companies ?
✅What are the challenges for IoT in domain of engineering, technology and structure ?
✅What are the advantages of development in Taiwan that Ubiik believes ?
✅The future trend for IoT industry and the outlook of Ubiik. 

Host & Guest: Jon <> Clément

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