Asia Tech Podcast - EP 134 - Kiran Mysore - Principal at UTEC - Entrepreneurs Can Come From Everywhere and Anywhere

The Asia Tech Podcast had a killer conversation with Kiran Mysore, a Principal at The University of Tokyo Edge Capital (UTEC).  UTEC is a seed/early-stage technology-focused venture capital firm associated with Japan's University of Tokyo.

Some of the many topics that Kiran and I covered:

• Kiran comes from a 'small' city in India that helped shaped many of his views
• He studied engineering at university and noted that a lot of people do that in India and then graduate and figure out what they really want to do
• He started studying entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial models when he was 21 including Indian pioneers like Tata, Americans like Carnegie and Rockefeller (ruthless capitalism), and Shibusawa Eiichi from Japan
• His inspiration from Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
• An explanation of stakeholder capitalism
• What is University of Tokyo Edge Capital
• Deep tech is anything that is Intellectual Property led and difficult to replicate
• Building long-term relationships in Japan matters
• Operational excellences matters
• It is never too early to talk to your customers
• Portfolio companies Bugworks and OPALai
• The concept of adjacent possible