

EP 228 - Lars Jankowfsky - Founder, NFQ Asia - Attitude Is a Lot More Important Than Experience
Sep 6, 2022
53:31
Asia Tech Podcast recorded a great conversation with Lars Jankowfsky, the Founder of NFQ Asia at the Redhill office in Singapore. NFQ Asia teams up brilliant minds to scale ambitious tech-driven businesses.
Some of the topics that Lars discussed:
- Being a bonafide nerd and programming on a Commodore 64
- Started coding as a fourteen-year-old
- Founded his first company in 1997
- Coded a prototype of BMW i-Drive
- The difference between now and the 2000 dot com bubble
- Building a flight search engine and selling to Kayak
- Transitioning from a tech guy to a businessman and learning from mistakes
- The importance of attitude in hiring decisions
Some other titles we considered for this episode:
- Not Only Different But Better
- I Think We Are Looking at a Different Crisis
- I Was Never Interested in Running a Dev Shop
- Scalable Products Are Much More Interesting
- I Am Not Really a Tech Dude Anymore
- You Need to Go Where the Talent Is
- People Told Me I Sing Decent in Karaoke