• EP3 | Path to an Immigrant Startup Leader, PMF in B2B Product and Technology Cycle w/ Gilbert Wai

  • May 25 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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EP3 | Path to an Immigrant Startup Leader, PMF in B2B Product and Technology Cycle w/ Gilbert Wai

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  • ✨In this episode, we interviewed Gilbert Wai, who embarked on his entrepreneurship journey in 1980 (when EECS was still a single major :D), transitioning from a hardware startup to a software startup. His journey includes three exits, two IPOs, and one acquisition (the first IPO occurred in 1995, followed by an acquisition by Dell Technologies).

    0:00⁠ Path to an immigrant startup leader

    13:10⁠⁠ The first thing in PMF is where the market is

    28:33⁠⁠ How to scale your product and team from 1 to 100?

    36:36 Navigate cultural differences as a minority leader in Tech

    51:30 How to live with the technology cycle

    01:00:39 Manage a big engineering team and hire the right people


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    About Startup -1 to 1: Our mission is to accompany immigrant founders who shape the future, from -1 to 1. 0-1 is the process of building your MVP to PMF. What happens before 0? What to prepare, how to pivot? We define this process as -1 to 0. We are here to bring startup stories from -1 to 1 and accompany immigrant founders to go through this path.
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