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

EP 173 - Jostein Aksnes - CEO Seven Peaks Software - Sell From Day One