Asian Tech Leaders

["Himanshu Verma says Eventbrite uses AI for GitHub Copilot, Devin pilots, incident correlation, event creation, ad creation, and internal Q&A search, and he says AI-generated ads reached 17% better cost per click.", "He describes Eventbrite as a two-sided marketplace serving 172 countries, with millions of live events and about 90% free listings.", "He says the company runs fully remote, with Slack as the operating center, plus Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, Zoom, and a strong preference for self-managed employees.", "The conversation also covers his northern India upbringing in a teacher household, his COBOL runtime and C/assembly work, and his advice to unlearn, relearn, and build perseverance."]

Asian Tech Leaders talks with Dorothy Chang, a Next Wave NYC investment partner and Lynx Collective co-founder, about Texture, AI startups, and founder fit.

Asian Tech Leaders talks with Jason Fan, CEO and co-founder of DealWise, about the market for buying and selling SaaS startups.

Jae Lee says 12Labs is building video foundation models that let developers search, summarize, and question video across petabytes of footage.

Vivian Sun, head of automated driving at Amazon, sits down with Justin Pang on Asian Tech Leaders to talk about autonomous driving, generative AI, and her path from China to the U.S.

Albert Tai, founder and CEO of Hypercare, explains how moving between Taiwan, Detroit, Windsor, and Vancouver shaped his adaptability and interest in technology.

Francois Lignon describes moving from teenage computer-building businesses to product management, venture investing, and co-founding Staging Labs, which secures crypto and NFT assets by intercepting dangerous transactions.

Justin Pang interviews Jacqueline Ling, co-founder of Hatchways, about moving from Vancouver and McGill finance into entrepreneurship, including a YouTube channel with about 10,000 subscribers and a handmade purse business.

Ivan Zhang, co-founder and CTO of Cohere, explains how generative AI moved from convincing customers it was useful to handling C-suite demand for execution and strategy.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Pang interviews Thomas Park, a BDC Deep Tech Fund partner leading a $200 million fund and co-founder of the Asian Canadian Ventures Collective.

Shruti Rao, co-founder and chief business officer of Vendia, describes growing up in Mysore, India, in a family that expected a 4.0 GPA alongside theater, debate, and dance.

Linda Ho, Chief People Officer at Seismic, explains how an internship at a women’s shelter redirected her from social work toward business HR.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Pang interviews Dr.

Eden Full Goh, CEO and founder of Mobot, describes how childhood science fairs in Calgary led from solar-panel experiments to robotics-based mobile-app testing.

Percy Hung, co-founder and CEO of ChocoUp, describes moving from Hong Kong to Singapore at age 12, studying aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, and working in Japan.

Amelia Lin, CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, a private family social app, tells Justin Pang how a personal project recording her immigrant parents' stories grew into an iOS app for new and expecting parents.

Judy Lai Norling, COO of Carbon Mapper, describes immigrating from Taiwan, working in her parents’ restaurant from age six, and developing an early interest in space through Uncle Will.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Pang interviews Vivian Shen, CEO and co-founder of Juni Learning, about moving from politics and computer science at Stanford to Google, McKinsey, startups, and education.

Rob Chang describes leaving capital-markets research for Riot Blockchain after seeing institutional portfolio managers add Bitcoin to their portfolios in 2017.

Justin Pang interviews Dr.

Justin Pang interviews Faisal Abid, CTO and co-founder of Irene Cremations, about building a virtual funeral home with a flat $2,500 fee for cremation services.

Justin Pang interviews Moselle co-founders Lakhveer Singh Jajj and Traci Cheng about meeting at Careguy, leaving corporate roles in December 2019, and launching shortly before the pandemic.

Danny Pai, COO at Rowan, explains how operations experience at Uber and Oliver Wyman shaped her approach to scaling ear-piercing services across Target and Rowan studios.

Kane Ma describes being cut from Northwest Guilford High School’s basketball team as a junior, then transferring for his senior year to continue playing.

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Jenny Lam, Chief Business Officer at Wattpad, describes moving from Accenture through Yahoo, mobile payments, 3D printing, and Wattpad by following curiosity and taking the next useful step.

Andrew Chang, COO of Paxos, explains how Bitcoin price spikes can increase corporate interest in blockchain projects even though the two are only loosely related.

Raphael Chow, CEO and co-founder of WeVat, describes building a tax-refund platform that served travelers from 88 countries and processed more than £16 million in purchases.

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Chow Chia-Li, CEO and co-founder of Rosecut, traces her entrepreneurial path from her mother's fashion business in 1990s China through M&A, private banking, and London Business School.

Lin Chen, co-founder and COO of LayerCI, describes moving from Candy Cutlery, an edible-utensil startup, into developer tooling after experiencing severe burnout.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Peng interviews Josh Lee about moving from Google, entrepreneurship, and blockchain after 12 years at Google.

Justin Peng interviews historian Ellen Wu, an Indiana University Bloomington scholar and author of The Color of Success, about Asian American history and the model minority concept.

Jiaqi Pan, CEO and founder of Landbot, describes building a no-code chatbot platform used by more than 50,000 businesses, including Uber, L'Oreal, and LG.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Peng interviews Buck Gee about Asian representation in technology, executive advancement, and the influence of his upbringing as one of the few Chinese families in his community.

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Hanming Yang, founder and CEO of Alike, explains why his video dating app targets cultural identity gaps and Asian fetish in North American dating.

Mikael Cho, co-founder and CEO of Unsplash, describes growing up in Neenah, Wisconsin, in a Korean-American family and later moving to Montreal after meeting his wife in Mexico.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Peng interviews Megan Pai, a Google vice-president who joined the company in 2002 and has spent 17 years there.

Donna Litt describes how a planned path toward underwater archaeology led instead to TribeHR, Kite, and a career shaped by family, startups, and creative work.

Paul Huynh describes growing up as one of the only Asian families in a predominantly Black and white Mississippi community before joining Google in 2007.

Rain Takahashi, CEO and founder of Jontan, tells Justin Peng how five seasons working with the Toronto Raptors preceded a career in marketing, coding, and entrepreneurship.

Asian Tech Leaders host Justin Peng interviews Emma Yang, founder of Timeless, about building a mobile app for Alzheimer's patients after her grandmother developed Alzheimer's.

Jimmy Chen, CEO and founder of Propel, describes moving from China to Kansas City at age four, studying Symbolic Systems at Stanford, and choosing product management at LinkedIn over engineering on FarmVille in 2010.

Soban Etemadi, CEO and founder of Sobe Systems, describes building HVAC sensor technology after his father found a carbon monoxide leak that household alarms had not detected.

Xiao Wang, co-founder and CEO of Boundless, explains how being cut from baseball, soccer, and ultimate frisbee teams led him to endurance sports, including marathons and Ironman triathlons.

Karen Hao, AI reporter at MIT Technology Review, traces her path from a mechanical engineering degree at MIT to a startup spun out of Google X and then to journalism at Quartz.

Eva Wong, co-founder and COO of Borrowell, describes moving from Oliver Wyman to international development in Malawi after being laid off.

Tiffany Pham, CEO and founder of Mogul, describes building a platform that reaches women in 196 countries and more than 30,000 cities.