AI Workforce Compression, SGX Liquidity Gaps & Singapore’s Startup Reckoning with Adriel Yong – E673
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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)
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Why does AI feel like a “pre‑crisis” acceleration and what does that mean for the economy?
I think the societal impact is something we should think about really hard because today you really see, you know, the fracturing of societies with globalization. You're gonna see a ten hundred X, you know, larger fracturing with economic d displacements when AI fully takes shape across all sectors of the economy. And that's something I think we wanna avoid and not go to civil war.
Welcome to Brave. Learn from Southeast Asia's best tech leaders. Build the future, learn from our past, and stay human in between. No BS on Success. I'm Jeremy O, Venture Capitalist, Sarah founder, Harvard MBA, science fiction nerd, and dad of two daughters. Every week, we debate startup news, interview change makers, answer listener questions, and share personal insights. Join our movement of over 40,000 members and get transcripts, resources, and community at www.bravesea.com. Stay well and stay brave. Hey, Joel, welcome back.
Yeah, super excited to be back here after spending two weeks out in um beautiful sunny Pula Turgong for my reservist.
Yeah. Gotta get the sunshine, get some exercise, get some sunlight. We've been out busy being a startup founder and running around. So very good for your mitochondria to Yes
longevity.
Longevity. Yeah. So, you know, I think it's been interesting because, you know, we felt like for since our last conversation, a lot of things have changed, especially in the AI space. And so we want to talk about some of those changes and how that impacts I think the Singapore ecosystem and policy dynamic. What do you think is uh top of mind for you on this AI side from your perspective?
Yeah, I mean like the speed of development and change in AI is just so rapid, right? You know, one day you have a new model from OpenAI and Tropic that is like, you know, ten X better than the previous model and then they drop the ball and say, Well, you know, this model is like effectively made by, you know, AI itself and that gets really scary. And then on another day, you know, you have like things like Motebook, you know, Claud Bot, you know. For those who don't know, like Moatbook is literally like a Radit style, you know, social network for AI agents and then it's been incredible incredibly like hilarious. We just scroll through the comments and see what they discuss and also, you know, talk about human beings.
It gives you a very dystopique into the future. Coincides a lot with me, you know, watching Black Mirror to try and anticipate more dystopian possibilities in the coming months. In years as we grapple with AI getting more and more like prevalent and social spaces beyond just being like a functional utilitarian like partner. And then, you know, I think there was this other really interesting website as well, which is Rent a Human AI, where you know AI agents can effectively rent a human to complete or do last mile things in the real world or on the internet that it still can't do, right? Like payments, doing your groceries, taking a meeting, doing some form of a live sales call. So just seeing all those things explode has just been so fascinating.
There was a recent, I think, viral tweet on post about something big is happening which talks about more of all the developments in AI and how that's, you know, very scary for the wider world at large.
Yeah, I I think it's, you know, super fascinating because, you know, I was going through my old sci-fi books and it was kinda funny because, you know, today you're like, oh, it's feels a little bit outdated, right? And it reminds me of like that old sci-fi book that was even older, which was like around the world in forty days, used to be a lot. This crazy idea people could travel around the world in a repetition for forty days. And now it's like, oh, we can do it in like a day. And so I think it's just been interesting to see that a lot of the last generation of science fiction about you know talking AI agents, et cetera, are effectively and some of the old paradigms are just super out of date, right?
I always say like you know, Star Wars when yeah.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does AI feel like a “pre‑crisis” acceleration and what does that mean for the economy?
0:00–16:01
2
How are companies moving from traditional pyramid structures to “lean‑diamond” teams?
16:01–25:32
3
Why are CEOs now able to bypass middle‑management layers with AI tools?
25:32–35:59
4
How is AI compressing entry‑level jobs and what challenges does this pose for Gen Z?
35:59–43:05
5
Why is early‑stage seed financing the real bottleneck for Singapore startups?
43:05–47:54
6
How does the current angel‑tax policy distort investment incentives for smaller investors?
47:54–52:18
7
Why should AI literacy be treated as national infrastructure rather than a short‑term subsidy?
52:18–55:12
8
What are the liquidity gaps on the SGX and how might government budget measures address them?
55:12–56:24
Speakers
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