"It's not easy to execute. We see examples of Southeast Asian companies that try to crack India and have not been very successful, to put it mildly. At the same time, we're seeing the same from Indian companies looking to expand to Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia here. So this is the main connection, India and Indonesia." - Leon John Hermann
"And the reason is that everyone's starting to learn right now. It's not just you take that product, you launch it in your market, you hire some commercial people and then you just scale, basically. They understand while some nuances are very similar, other elements of the equation really need to be localised. And that's not that easy.- Leon John Hermann" - Leon John Hermann
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on India and SE Asia cross pollination, the operator versus VC career path, and building a VC fund from scratch.
Keywords: India and SE Asia Cross Pollination, Operator vs VC, Building a VC Fund, India, Southeast Asia, South Asia, VC
