Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital Making Relationships Work: Kamarul Muhamed & Azita Azizan, Aerodyne Group
"When times are hard, hold on to your vision. Remember why you started in the first place."
In a never-before like interview, we dive deep into the business of drones with the Malaysian power couple Kamarul A Muhamed and Azita Azizan who founded Aerodyne group, which is set to be the global leading provider of drone-based enterprise solutions, with over $30M raised, presence in over 35 countries, and over 350,000 assets inspected.
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👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why picking your co-founder is the most important choice you can make, the secret in choosing people to work with
- What it takes to build a global footprint, can you expand too fast?
- The future of drones and aerial robotics, should you be afraid?
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:29 - Why this idea, why now?
06:16 - Acquiring new customers, and proving the business case
10:52 - Taking the leap - how the power couple came to be
14:08 - Validating outside the country?
23:36 - Building for global growth - what strategy worked?
26:08 - Choosing the right partners and leaning into your intuition
30:52 - Rising expectations of the industry, aerial robotics and more
36:54 - Opportunity out of a crisis
39:12 - Billion Dollar Questions
On Aerodyne:
Aerodyne Group (https://aerodyne.group) is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) drone-based enterprise solutions provider, and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology for large-scale data operations, analytics, and process optimization. Aerodyne is ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights (DII) in its ‘Drone Service Provider Ranking 2020’; was named Frost & Sullivan’s ‘Asia Pacific UAV Services Company of 2019’; and is a recipient of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia’s ‘Industry Excellence Gold Award 2019’. The company’s founder and Group CEO, Kamarul A Muhamed, is 'EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020'.
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.
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