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Sarah Chen-Spellings
From the real-world impact of AI and the rise of operator-investors, to the growing influence of women and underestimated founders in the funding landscape. Sarah breaks down what’s happening beyond Silicon Valley, explore how capital and media now move together, and spotlight the billion-dollar ideas driving the next wave of innovation.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
Scaling Yourself As CEO with Kim Yao
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
Reinventing Your Career At Every Age, Leveraging Diversity
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth
Turning Fear to Power: Exiled Iranian Singer Gola
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
Rising Through Insecurity: Material Scientist turned Unicorn Backer, Lu Zhang
From reluctant CEO, to seeding and scaling the original generation of venture capital funds in Malaysia as a limited partner investor as MAVCAP’s 4th CEO, to Managing Director of $1.2 Billion Pan-Asian VC fund, Jamal Bujang covers it all from how he took different leaps in his career, to how new venture capital funds can actually succeed with trust at the center of partnership, to the potential of Malaysia as the country heads into elections.
- Personal Growth
8 Technology Trends for Innovative Leaders In A Post-Pandemic World
From mRNA vaccines stemming from tech considered “fringe” not too long ago, to automation, data— this is a great time to amplify human talent & insight. 8 #YGLs share how they will leverage tech trends to become better leaders in 2022.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Startups
Family Office View: The Venture Capital Strategy
"The hardest lesson for me as a leader? I've chosen to be in this position. I chose to build this business. So it starts with me and it ends with me"
The family office was initially created to look after the wealth of ultra high net worth families. But today, the modern-day family office does far more than that and is in fact, acting a whole lot more like a venture investor. Today we talk to Field Pickering, COO, General Counsel and Head of Venture Investing at Vulpes, a family office built off the wealth of Stephen Diggle, who founded Artradis Fund Management. Artradis was an Asian long volatility biased multi strategy alternative asset manager, and at its helm grew assets under management from US$4 million to US$4.7 billion at its peak in 2008.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth
Never Too Late to Startup, Compound Interest
Love him or hate him, Naval who built AngelList has mastered the art of succinct thought-provoking tweets.
"So, compound interest is a marvelous force, where if you start out with 1x what you have, and then if you increase 20% a year for 30 years, it’s not that you got 30 years times 20% added on. It was compounding, so it just grew, and grew, and grew until you suddenly got a massive amount of whatever it is. Whether it’s goodwill, or love, or relationships, or money. So, I think compound interest is a very important force.
You have to be able to play a long-term game."
- Personal Growth
Finding Greenlights in Life
I've been digging into famous actor, Matthew McConaughey’s recent audio version of his book Greenlights this long weekend.
I never thought so deeply about what a 'greenlight' meant until tuning into Matthew's apt description—just like how'd you react when the traffic lights turn green, a sign for 'go', the perfect timing where you need to accelerate forward, or potentially miss your chance.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book:
We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows. We have to be thrown off balance to find our footing. It’s better to jump than fall. And here I am.
If we stay and process within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Why? Because we're not thinking of the finish line. We're not looking at the clock. We’re not watching ourselves on the Jumbotron performing. We are performing in real time where the approach is the destination.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Startups
Making Relationships Work (While Building a Global Empire)
"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 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.