I find there’s a pretty big gap in high quality stories and analysis of the tech ecosystem and startup world in southeast Asia and India. There’s so much happening in this part of the world and so much skill being deployed to solve such a diverse variety of problems. But unless you’re in the middle of it, and even if you are, there aren’t too many places to hear or read about it. And no, funding announcements and press releases don’t cut it. We need more thoughtful podcasts and long-form writing!
So I’ve been really glad to see what Michael Waitze is doing with his (many!) podcasts, and was glad to have an opportunity to chat with him for an episode of the Asia Tech Podcast. Our conversation was wide-ranging, and somehow managed to cover the weird split in my career between the work I did early on within US Defense and Intelligence (first 18 minutes) and the last 8 years I’ve spent in tech/startups in India and Singapore (from ~19:00 on). My favorite part was how well he managed to capture and describe the problem we’re solving at Aampe.