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:

1. I Want to Build a Website
2. Trying to Build What They Need, Not What They Want
3. The Commercial Model Is Not Agile
4. Don’t Spend Two Years Building a Product
5. Nobody Buys a Product