Asia Tech Podcast - EP 135 - Christian Mischler - co-Founder of Deskimo - It Does Not Make Sense to Trade Time for Money

The Asia Tech Podcast finally had the chance to catch up with Christian Mischler, a co-Founder of Deskimo.  Christian is really so much more than that...

Christian grew up in a family of educators, with no substantive business experience, yet he was always interested in business.  He started his first business in high school, building websites for Swiss-based SMEs.  While at university, Christian started his second company - making flashcards and writing summaries to help students get into university and rolled this out across Switzerland.

Some of the other topics Christian and I discussed:

• The Swiss Army and joining Credit Suisse after graduation
• Worked at CS for two years and enjoyed the work, but made more money from his ventures
• Came to Asia with Rocket Internet to help build FoodPanda, his bosses at CS thought he was a bit crazy
• The great story behind the founding of HotelQuickly
• The birth of the Swiss Founders Fund
• Not living paycheck to paycheck, but not living a luxurious lifestyle
• How entrepreneurs see the world through the lens of opportunity, not problems
• The excitement of building things and working with a cool team on something new
• How the pandemic has changed the way people collaborate and work
• The evolution of Central Business Districts and the repurposing of office buildings
• Deskimo - an asset-light extension of a corporate office