They Make Me Smarter

The Future of Autonomous cars and Robotics with Varun Jain interviewed by Sylvie Gendreau for They Make Me Smarter at Startupfest

Varun Jain is the Head of Early-Stage Fund of Qualcomm Ventures. In this episode, he shares what was disruptive for the last three years in the autonomous vehicles. Varun leads Qualcomm Ventures' Early Stage Fund, focused on Seed and Series A opportunities in IoT, AI, Robotics and AR/VR.

In 2017, Varun Jain was recognized as one among the global top 20 Rising Stars in the corporate venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing. In this episode, he told us how Qualcomm Ventures became the third investor in Cruise, the startup sold to GM for over 1B$ seventeen months ago.

Interview-2 with Philippe Telio, The Founder of Startupfest-TFS005 by They Make Me Smarter Podcast

Interview-1 with Philippe Telio, The Founder of Startupfest-TFS004 by They Make Me Smarter Podcast

Robert meets a lot of people these days who got discouraged when thinks don't work out. They expect that everything they do will work out right away. NO, NO, NO, he said! Failure is the only way to learn.

Learn the 21st century skills with Robert Pragai, a creative expert in problem-solving.

The conversation with Robert took almost three hours, from which I edited three episodes of 20 minutes. The first one is about his life story from which we learn how our personality and the events of our life can help us to draw a learning path to grow. The second episode, Make The Problem Visible, is about the new skills we need to learn to survive and succeed in today world. Finally, the third episode, What happens when you fail, is about tips and mind tricks to get things done and learned from our past failures.

What makes Robert special? He gets bored easily. He needs to be stimulated ALL THE TIME to pay attention and be operational. For him, to be creative is not an option, it's a way of living!