✨In this episode, we interviewed Gilbert Wai, who embarked on his entrepreneurship journey in 1980 (when EECS was still a single major :D), transitioning from a hardware startup to a software startup. His journey includes three exits, two IPOs, and one acquisition (the first IPO occurred in 1995, followed by an acquisition by Dell Technologies).
0:00 Path to an immigrant startup leader
13:10 The first thing in PMF is where the market is
28:33 How to scale your product and team from 1 to 100?
36:36 Navigate cultural differences as a minority leader in Tech
51:30 How to live with the technology cycle
01:00:39 Manage a big engineering team and hire the right people
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