Asia Tech Podcast recorded a great conversation with Lars Jankowfsky, the Founder of NFQ Asia at the Redhill office in Singapore. NFQ Asia teams up brilliant minds to scale ambitious tech-driven businesses.
Some of the topics that Lars discussed:
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Being a bonafide nerd and programming on a Commodore 64
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Started coding as a fourteen-year-old
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Founded his first company in 1997
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Coded a prototype of BMW i-Drive
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The difference between now and the 2000 dot com bubble
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Transitioning from a tech guy to a businessman and learning from mistakes
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The importance of attitude in hiring decisions
Some other titles we considered for this episode:
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Not Only Different But Better
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I Think We Are Looking at a Different Crisis
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I Was Never Interested in Running a Dev Shop
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Scalable Products Are Much More Interesting
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I Am Not Really a Tech Dude Anymore
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You Need to Go Where the Talent Is
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People Told Me I Sing Decent in Karaoke
Read the best-effort transcript below (This technology is still not as good as they say it is…):
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