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Our Analyse Asia playlist for the first 250 episodes. Check out our old episodes and hear how the podcast has evolved over the past 9 years.

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What do venture capitalists actually do all day? And what is the path that leads to a career investing in startups? Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad, Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee, Aspect Ventures' Theresia Gouw, Intel Capital veteran and UPWARD founder Lisa Lambert, and Andreessen Horowitz’s Margit Wennmachers discuss VC trends, the importance of technical chops, and how to build the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors. And finally, in front of an appreciative crowd attending the UPWARD event at a16z, Ann Winblad reveals the secret to truly kicking ass.

a16z Podcast: Demystifying Venture Capital

Morris Chang, founding chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, reflects on his journey of bringing revolutionary changes to his industry, in conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy. Chang also touches on discovering new business models, his thoughts on leadership, and the importance of gratitude in one's career.

Morris Chang - An Emphasis on Excellence

Managing enterprise networks with thousands of users and endpoints has been hard enough. Now that large enterprise networks routinely include hundreds of thousands of nodes it’s amazingly difficult and time-consuming (we’re talking days often)  to get definitive answers to seemingly simple questions like, how many PCs do I have running? Never mind, how many PCs do I have that could be at risk of the Heartbleed virus? Tanium, the most recent company to join the a16z portfolio, offers a systems management and security tool that allows administrators to ask virtually any question about the configuration, performance, and complexion of an enterprise network and get an answer in seconds. Tanium CTO and Co-founder Orion Hindawi and a16z Board Partner Steven Sinofsky discuss the origins of Tanium; the invention of  the “linear peer-to-peer communications” architecture that turbo-charges the Tanium solution; and with Internet of Things coming online fast, the prospect of networks quickly going to millions and billions of nodes. 

a16z Podcast: When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks

Benedict Evans, partner from Andreessen Horowitz, is here to discuss all things mobile, beginning from the different approaches from Google and Apple to dominate the next phase of the mobile ecosystems, with new perspectives arising from his questions on the shifting layers of interaction, Google's vision of Android, Google Android vs AOSP. We also discussed the possibilities in how the next 2 billion will be affected by mobile and the potential new models that will emerge from those markets. Last but not least, we discussed the lack of app store metrics and his take on search, discovery and curation in the digital age.

Episode 43  All On Mobile With Benedict Evans

Anh-Minh Do from Tech In Asia joined us for a discussion on all things start-up and venture capital in Vietnam. We discussed the current local major players within the ecosystem, the top three venture firms and the important people who you must get to know in Vietnam. We also discussed the most interesting startups that are emerging and the interesting connection between Vietnam and Silicon Valley. Last but not least, we dug deep into why the Vietnamese startups are still experiencing a valuation gap below US$300M.

Episode 52: The Vietnam Startup Ecosystem With Anh - Minh Do

With Bernard Moon from Sparklabs Global Ventures and SparkLabs accelerator, we discuss their recent report "Global Technology Trends and Startup Hubs 2015" and its implications to technology startups in this year. We start with Bernard's journey as a startup operator to an early stage investor and mentor to startups from Silicon Valley to Korea and back. He also shared his perspectives on the Korean startup ecosystem and what it really means to be a global startup hub and the metrics to measure them. 

Episode 61:  SparkLabs & Startup Hubs With Bernard Moon

David Corbin from Tech in Asia, joined us to discuss the Rakuten Group, one of the fascinating Internet company in Japan. Starting from a chronological perspective, we analysed the company based on major milestones from how they started from an ecommerce online marketplace to a conglomerate that spanned from different Internet services (travel, digital media, financial services to others such as owning sports teams: Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (baseball) and Vissel Kobe (football) in J-League. We also examined how Rakuten has rocked the Japanese corporate world with its switch from Japanese to English as the primary language of the company. We also discussed the charismatic founder of Rakuten, Hiroshi Mikitani and the management team, dissecting their businesses and current corporate strategy from acquisitions of Viki and Viber to investments to Pinterest & Lyft in Silicon Valley. Last but not least, we also mulled whether Rakuten is here to stay in the next few decades.

Episode 63: The Rakuten Group With David Corbin

With Josh Horwitz from Quartz, we discuss the ongoing major war of the four important on-demand taxi hailing apps: Uber, Didi, OlaCabs and GrabTaxi and how these battles between them are now becoming proxy wars between major corporations, investors and governments in Asia. We dive deeply into various issues regarding these four companies from their app features, revenue and monetisation models, their investors and the way how they differentiate from one another within Asia. We also discuss the recent regulatory frameworks which China has introduced to regulate Uber and Didi and how this might cascade into other parts of Asia.

Episode 69: Uber Versus Didi, OlaCabs And GrabTaxi With Josh Horwitz

Ong Peng Tsin, general partner of Monk's Hill Ventures joined us to discuss his story from an entrepreneur in the US to subsequently moving to China as a venture capitalist. Drawing his experience from Match.com, Interwoven and Encentuate, he offered his thoughts about the lessons learnt as an entrepreneur and also highlighted his observations on both the US and China start-up ecosystems. Finally, he discussed the story of Monk's Hill Ventures from their investment thesis to why they are betting big on the Southeast Asia ecosystem.

Episode 72: Monk's Hill Ventures & Southeast Asia With Ong Peng Tsin

In this episode, Claudia Olsson, founder of several startups (Exponential AB, Stellar Capacity AB and Catalyse Delta Group) and former senior advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on technology and innovation trends joined us for a conversation on innovation global challenges and Asia healthcare. Drawing from her experience in the Singularity University, Claudia shared her story of setting up Access Healthcare in Singapore, Philippines and India and examples on how Asia has pioneered some of the most interesting ideas in healthcare that can be mapped back to the Western World. Finally, she discussed one of her current startups Stellar Capacity AB and her current consulting project: Global Challenges.

Episode 78: Innovation, Global Challenges & Asia Healthcare With Claudia Olsson

Charles Reed Anderson, Vice President, Head of Mobility and Internet of Things Asia Pacific, IDC, joined us for a conversation to discuss all things Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities in Asia Pacific. Starting from his observations from the recent CES 2016, we focused on the discussion how businesses and vendors are figuring out their Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and how they will impact digital strategy in 2016. Subsequently, we dived deep into the subject of smart cities in Asia, and discussed how the various stakeholders from government to businesses are figuring out the different initiatives and interesting case studies. 

Episode 90: Smart Cities In Asia Pacific With Charles Reed Anderson

Ben Bajarin from Creative Strategies and Techpinions joined us for the special 100th episode to discuss the dawn of the augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology. Starting from an account of his recent trip to Game Developer & VR developer Summit, Ben shared why this is the year for AR and VR to break out this year. We discussed the emerging AR and VR market with the different players from Asia, such as HTC, Sony & Samsung and US, for example, Microsoft, Google and Facebook and analysed the different business models for the headsets, software and content developers in the market. Last but not least, Ben offer his perspectives on the upcoming Apple event on 21 March and the marketing position of the rumored iPhone SE.  We closed with Ben giving his feedback and thoughts on what he hopes to hear from our podcast in the next 100 episodes.

Episode 100: The Dawn Of Augmented & Virtual Reality With Ben Bajarin

Arnaud Bonzom, the director of corporate innovation from 500 Startups joined us in a conversation on the interesting trend in how major corporations are engaging the startups today. We began with Arnaud's story from his early days as a trade advisor for the French government to INSEAD and finally to 500 Startups, and what he seek to invest as an angel investor. We dived deep in his report #500Corporations, "How do the World's Biggest Companies Deal with the Startup Revolution?". Arnaud discuss the different frameworks and important findings in how multi-national companies are engaging in a variety of ways from US to Asia and how different industries from pharmaceuticals to telecommunications companies utilised different approaches with startups.

Episode 104: Corporate Innovation And 500 Startups With Arnaud Bonzom

Andreas Ehn, current partner of Approach and former CTO of Spotify, joined us in a conversation on technology and where we are heading in four major areas: artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles and virtual & augmented reality.

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Episode 246: A Conversation on Technology with Andreas Ehn

Charles Anderson from Charles Reed Anderson and Associates, joined us in a two part conversation discussing the global state of IoT and the evolution of low power wide area networks (LPWANs) in Asia. In the first part, we discussed why most IoT initiatives fail and how many companies can avert the points of failure in their digital transformation programs. Last but not least, Charles discussed the interesting case of Taipei's smart city initiative and what they have gotten right in their implementation with a private-public partnership.

Episode 247: Why IoT initiatives fail with Charles Anderson

Charles Anderson from Charles Reed Anderson and Associates, joined us in a two part conversation discussing the global state of IoT and the evolution of low power wide area networks (LPWANs) in Asia. In the second part, we discusse the state of low power wide area networks and the path for the three major vendors: NB-IoT, LoRA and SigFox across Asia Pacific and how the different telco players are leveraging them to enable IoT for different use cases.

Episode 248: The State of Low Power Wide Area Networks in Asia 2018 with Charles Anderson

Jon Russell, from TechCrunch joined us in a two episode arc to discuss the major acquisitions that are shaking the Asia landscape from Southeast Asia to China. In the first part of our conversation, we discussed the recent acquisition of Uber Southeast Asia by Grab and its impact to the different stakeholders from investors, employees, consumers and governments. We also explore how their competitors Go-Jek and Ola are affected within the Asian landscape.

Episode 249: Grab acquires Uber Southeast Asia with Jon Russell

Jon Russell, from TechCrunch joined us in a two episode arc to discuss the major acquisitions that are shaking the Asia landscape from Southeast Asia to China. In the second part of our conversation, we discussed the recent major acquisitions by China technology giants in China. From the acquisition of Mobike by Meituan-Dianping to Ele.me by Alibaba Group, we evaluate their impact to Southeast Asia and India and examine why Amazon is not likely to buy Flipkart in India.

Episode 250: China Tech Giants' Acquisitions & Its Impact to Asia with Jon Russell

The Analyse Podcast, formerly Analyse Asia, is a weekly show that dissects the pulse of business, technology, and media across the world. Hosted by Bernard Leong, it features in-depth conversations with leading journalists, senior executives, visionary authors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who shape industries and ideas. Each episode dives into the most important trends and stories redefining how the world builds, scales, and innovates — from Asia to the globe.

Episode 43 All On Mobile With Benedict Evans

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