The Asia Tech Podcast had a killer conversation with Kiran Mysore, a Principal at The University of Tokyo Edge Capital (UTEC). UTEC is a seed/early-stage technology-focused venture capital firm associated with Japan's University of Tokyo. Some of the many topics that Kiran and I covered: Kiran comes from a 'small' city in India that helped shaped many of his views He studied engineering at university and noted that a lot of people do that in India and then graduate and figure out what they really want to do He started studying entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial models when he was 21 including Indian pioneers like Tata, Americans like Carnegie and Rockefeller (ruthless capitalism), and Shibusawa Eiichi from Japan His inspiration from Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan An explanation of stakeholder capitalism What is University of Tokyo Edge Capital Deep tech is anything that is Intellectual Property led and difficult to replicate Building long-term relationships in Japan matters Operational excellences matters It is never too early to talk to your customers Portfolio companies Bugworks and OPALai The concept of adjacent possible

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