EP 228 – Lars Jankowfsky – Founder, NFQ Asia – Attitude Is a Lot More Important Than Experience

by Michael Waitze | Sep 7, 2022

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:

Being a bonafide nerd and programming on a Commodore 64
Started coding as a fourteen-year-old
Founded his first company in 1997
Coded a prototype of BMW i-Drive
The difference between now and the 2000 dot com bubble
Building a flight search engine and selling to Kayak
Transitioning from a tech guy to a businessman and learning from mistakes
The importance of attitude in hiring decisions

Some other titles we considered for this episode:

Not Only Different But Better
I Think We Are Looking at a Different Crisis
I Was Never Interested in Running a Dev Shop
Scalable Products Are Much More Interesting
I Am Not Really a Tech Dude Anymore
You Need to Go Where the Talent Is
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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