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240: Asia Tech Podcast at Chinaccelerator with Oscar Ramos, Geoffrey Handley and Kapil Kane(Asia Matters)
Category: Business
Duration: 00:38:54
Publish Date: 2018-04-25 18:00:00
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Podcast highlights:

  • 13:45 Oscar Ramos talks about how engineers in China can get direct access to product creation. This is a competitive advantage that is difficult to get anywhere else in the world.
  • 33:06 Only what you bring to the table matters. Leave your history, where you're from and your baggage behind. What are the tangible benefits of this mindset in the startup ecosystem?
  • 35:57 How can you get involved in Shanghai and China? Just get on the plane and turn up or is there a more systematic approach?

Podcast notes:

  • 00:05 ATP630 - Asia Matters with Oscar Ramos, Geoffrey Handley and Kapil Kane hosted by Graham Brown at Chinaccelerator Shanghai
  • 01:08 Oscar Ramos's journey from Spain to Shanghai
  • 02:32 What was Shenzhen and China like 11 years ago when Kapil Kane first arrived?
  • 04:37 Oscar's experience of arriving in a pre-Olympic Beijing in 2007 and how the language barrier became a learning opportunity
  • 07:00 The funny story of how Oscar left his suitcase at the airport on his first day in China - a good start!
  • 08:44 Kapil's transition from Silicon Valley into China back in 2005
  • 13:45 Oscar Ramos talks about how engineers in China can get direct access to product creation. This is a competitive advantage that is difficult to get anywhere else in the world.
  • 15:50 Does your perspective on technology change after moving to China?
  • 17:49 Graham's observations about the special 'holiday' energy in the startup ecosystem in China. We recorded this podcast on a national holiday in China. Despite that, the offices at Chinaccelerator were packed.
  • 20:32 What is it about China, Shanghai in particular, that can't be found elsewhere?
  • 24:20 Geoffrey Handley joins the conversation ad shares a little from his own experience on what makes Shanghai special
  • 27:30 Geoffrey's initial impression of China as a 13 year old
  • 30:19 Oscar's views on how it is often easier to communicate with a person from a different country. We share more in common by virtue of the fact we've left our countries and we're entrepreneurs
  • 31:25 The increasingly redundant question of 'where are you from?'
  • 33:06 Only what you bring to the table matters. Leave your history, where you're from and your baggage behind. What are the tangible benefits of this mindset in the startup ecosystem?
  • 34:58 A big shout out to from Graham to students Elliot, Shaun and Paritosh! Here are 3 NYU students who left the US for a semester and "showed up" in China to learn Mandarin and a little on how China works.
  • 35:57 How can you get involved in Shanghai and China? Just get on the plane and turn up or is there a more systematic approach?
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