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:

1. Not Only Different But Better
2. I Think We Are Looking at a Different Crisis
3. I Was Never Interested in Running a Dev Shop
4. Scalable Products Are Much More Interesting
5. I Am Not Really a Tech Dude Anymore
6. You Need to Go Where the Talent Is
7. People Told Me I Sing Decent in Karaoke