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Podcast: Asia Tech Podcast
Episode:

ATP600: All Around the World – Visiting 4 Asian Cities in 4 Days (Asia Matters)
Category: Business
Duration: 00:59:33
Publish Date: 2018-03-28 19:00:00
Description:

Podcast highlights:

  • 09:35 Graham will be traveling from Japan to mainland China, then Hong Kong and Thailand over 4 days
  • 28:10 One of Asia's most exciting projects is the $5000 Billion One Belt One Road Initiative - OBOR is about China exerting its soft power in the world - the world needs the connectivity - just as we needed American soft power back in 1915 World Fair in San Francisco
  • 42:05 The opportunity to 10X your skills is right here in Asia - this is the untapped, frontier - real talent isn't motivated by money but by challenge and the ability to work on something that makes a big difference means heading East

    • Podcast notes:

    • 00:05 ATP600 - Asia Matters with Graham Brown
    • 02:00 Asia as the world's biggest trading block. Home to four of the world's five biggest economies, home to the world's biggest middle class
    • 06:30 Asia from being the servant of the West to being the most important economy in the world - rise of the Asian economy is to the benefit of the West
    • 09:35 Graham will be traveling from Japan to mainland China, then Hong Kong and Thailand over 4 days
    • 10:30 Tokyo as Graham's home - an introduction to the startup ecosystem Japan
    • 12:40 Traveling in and around Asia - a five-hour flight from Asia's major hubs and can reach billions of people, and it's cheap
    • 14:50 24 hours in Shanghai - meeting Intel's Kapil Kane - Shanghai's amazing skyline and one of the most exciting startup capitals in the world
    • 16:55 Tokyo - seen as centre of world technology and hub for electronics but lagging behind in terms of startup activity
    • 22:05 Hong Kong plans - meet Kyle Ellicott at the airport, Johan Nylander, Ashley Galina Dudarenok and Bay McLaughlin in Central - plans to climb up to the Peak and see the state of the Macau-Zhuhai-Hongkong bridge
    • 28:10 One of Asia's most exciting projects is the $5000 Billion One Belt One Road Initiative - OBOR is about China exerting its soft power in the world - the world needs the connectivity - just as we needed American soft power back in 1915 World Fair in San Francisco
    • 31:05 Graham taking his family to Thailand - his family's location-independent lifestyle pattern and back to his first real experience in Asia in Indonesia where Graham backpacked back in the mid-90s
    • 35:40 Boundary-less - the word to describe the lifestyle where one is not attached to an identity or a place
    • 37:15 Jim Rohn - "You are the sum of the five people you hang around with" - how the West needs to be equipped mentally to deal with the Asian Century
    • 42:05 The opportunity to 10X your skills is right here in Asia - this is the untapped, frontier - real talent isn't motivated by money but by challenge and the ability to work on something that makes a big difference means heading East
    • 47:05 Stories of people who take massive risks and blaze the trail for others to follow - the French trio of Philippe Joly, Ludovic Boudin, Alex Medana moving to Asia
    • 52:00 Cross-border integration creates a stronger world - Asia's rise a result of the networks that exist across the continent - outsiders creating this other layer of connectivity which they feedback to the outside world
    • 55:55 The frog who chooses to live in the well doesn't know the ocean - advice to people is to the West - stop talking about Asia from afar and start showing up
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