Host Riana Shah sat down with Alan Chiu, a partner at XSeed Capital to talk about product design and engineering. Alan has a computer engineering background and holds a MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow focused on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions. He has previously worked as an engineering manager at a network security start-up and director of product management, before joining XSeed Capital as a partner investing in mobile enterprise applications, data analytics platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and fintech startups. In this conversation Riana and Alan chat about product design, getting an edge over your competitors, and knowing when to quit working on an idea.