

EP 173 - Jostein Aksnes - CEO Seven Peaks Software - Sell From Day One
Jan 18, 2022
39:41
The Asia Tech Podcast was visited by Jostein Aksnes, the CEO of Seven Peaks Software and the CEO of Property Flow. Like a lot of my expatriate friends, Jostein agreed to a one-year assignment and shows no signs of leaving Thailand.
Some of the topics Jostein covered:
- Studied computer engineering
- Got his first job as a software developer at a broadcast technology company
- Managed and built real-time graphics and production systems
- Getting promoted and expatriated to Thailand
- Has now lived in Thailand since 2010
- Building and managing remote or extension teams
- Some of the challenges and solutions when the head office is on another continent
- Building FindYourSpace which morphed into Property Flow
- Diving deep into Seven Peaks
- The evolution of software development
- Microservices and the Cloud
- The validated learning loop
- Building great user experiences
- Selling solutions to problems
Other titles we considered for this episode:
- I Want to Build a Website
- Trying to Build What They Need, Not What They Want
- The Commercial Model Is Not Agile
- Don’t Spend Two Years Building a Product
- Nobody Buys a Product