Asia Tech Podcast EP 178 - Denise Kee - CEO at Xtremax - The Reporter and the Salesperson Are Quite Similar
Feb 11, 2022
38:41
Denise Kee seems to look at life through a very positive lens. The conversation Asia Tech Podcast had with her was no different. We smiled a lot during our chat...and I got the sense that her positive attitude also spills over into the culture that has been built at Xtremax, where Denise is the CEO.
Some of the topics that Denise discussed:
- Worked as a journalist for Reuters and Bloomberg
- Earned a Master's Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University
- Xtremax was founded by her now-husband, James Leong, in 2003
- Innovative ways to solve tech-talent hiring in Singapore
- Finally joining James at Xtremax as Creative Director
- Initially focused on usability and user experience
- Her sales philosophy
- The team's first experience with AWS - a playground to build things in the cloud
- Solving a large and complicated problem for the Government of Singapore
- Throwing away their own servers and moving everything to the cloud
Other titles we considered for this episode:
- We Like to Fact-check
- Life Is Really About Experience
- What Is the Core Problem They Are Trying to Solve?
- I Know How to Ask Questions
- Everyone's Going to the Cloud
- Feeling the Vibrations Before Everyone Else
- The Whole Cloud Is API-Driven
- When It’s API-Driven, Magic Can Happen
- Rainy Days Are My Favorite