Asia Tech Podcast EP 186 - Hoyin Cheung - Founder and CEO at Remo - The First Jump Is So Scary
Mar 15, 2022
48:26
The Asia Tech Podcast had a super-cool conversation with Hoyin Cheung, the Founder, and CEO of Remo(dot)co. Remo is an interactive virtual event platform that empowers you to grow and engage your audience.
Some of the topics that Hoyin covered:
- Being born in a small, university town in Illinois and moving (back) to Hong Kong when he was 9 years old
- The benefits and drawbacks of joining a new school and making new friends
- His Mom's family were business people, Dad's not so much
- Encouraged by his Dad to study bioengineering; could always transition to business
- Actually doing stem cell research, loving the science but itching to do business
- How working at a bank helped him understand how businesses actually work
- Taking the leap and starting his own business
- The inevitable bifurcation of your circle of friends
- How the car mount business led to an Instagram marketing business
- Building a team remotely and attending remote-work events
- Remote working was still a bit fringe and parts of the experience were not great
- Wondering how to replicate that feeling of working together in an office in an online setting
- Making a bet that remote working was going to be a long-term trend
- The importance of having a well-thought-out mission
- Using technology to create human experiences, not solving problems
Other titles we considered for this episode:
- It Felt Like One Massive Suburb
- You Can Start Off With Something
- The Whole Part of Entrepreneurship Is Discovery
- I Was Done With School
- One of Them Always Leads to the Other
- It's a Great Idea One Day, The Next Day It’s a Bad Idea
- Create Authentic Conversations that Develop Meaningful Relationships
- I Want to Host a Conference. Can I Host a Conference?
- Humans Do What Humans Do Best
- I Was Born In Illinois
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