60/40 Podcast

Go beyond the headlines on Asia's business, tech, and startup news. We tell the stories behind the biggest news, most innovative companies, and the people making it all happen - from Asia to the world 🌏.

60/40 Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Tech in Asia, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  How AI Is Changing the Founder’s Playbook

  Jul 16, 202631 min

  Prashanth is now building his fourth startup — and he says it's the hardest one yet. This time he had both the capital and the AI tools to move fast, and both made it easier to skip the hardest part: truly understanding the customer. The destination for the startup journey has never changed: founders still need to find product-market fit. But almost everything else has. Capital. Hiring. Distribution. Even how founders build, test, and iterate has been transformed by AI. They discuss why founders should probably raise less, not more. Why AI can accelerate bad ideas just as quickly as good ones. Why judgment—not execution—is becoming the scarcest resource. And they imagine what a four-person, billion-dollar company might look like in 2031... before revealing who's actually in the room. Timestamps 00:00 Cold Open: Is the Startup Playbook Dead? 00:36 Why AI Changes Company Building 06:35 Why a Fourth Startup Can Be Harder Than the First 10:55 The One Thing AI Still Can't Do: Understand Customers 15:32 Should Founders Raise Less Money? 21:01 Building a Four-Person Billion-Dollar Company in 2031 26:08 How Fast Should Companies Adopt AI? 30:21 Execution Is Cheap. Judgment Isn't. Give us feedback or nominate topics & speakers at 6040podcast@techinasia.com.

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  The 2026 Prediction Bingo Update: Half Right. Fully Accountable.

  Jun 15, 202645 min

  Six months ago, we made a set of predictions about AI, markets, and startups in 2026. Now it's time to see how they're holding up. Some aged surprisingly well: Google's AI search is becoming the default experience, AI specialists are going mainstream, and Canva continues its march toward IPO. Others... not so much. Along the way, we unpack the biggest surprises of the year so far: Anthropic's stunning rise, growing skepticism around vibe coding, why AI wrapper startups are disappearing, and whether investors are underestimating how quickly foundation model companies can move into every category. Then we’re coming in with a set of new predictions: physical AI, a Chinese breakout, video models, nuclear energy, and an AI-native creative studio that might just build the next MGM. So who won our bingo card check-in? The answer depends on who you ask. The views expressed on 60/40 are our own and are for informational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes financial, investment, or legal advice. Do your own research. Timestamps 01:22 — The Bingo Card Is Open — Maria sets the format: six-month accountability round across AI, markets, and startups. 02:27 — Gemini Is the Default (In Most Places) — Aleksey's call on Google AI mode; one market where it's literally 100% right. 06:27 — The AI Wrapper Obituary — Prashanth on why wrapper companies are gone, and where the surviving moat actually lives. 09:37 — The Two-Year Runway Problem — Maria on how even regulated, data-heavy startups now have a compression clock on them. 14:35 — Vibe Coding's Accountability Crisis — Prashanth on what he's actually seeing in engineering teams and why the 90%-done first date gets very expensive. 17:08 — Anthropic's Surprise Dominance — How the company that stood up to the Pentagon became the product people stuck with. 22:34 — The IPO Pricing Clock — Aleksey's specific prediction: Anthropic raises real prices within three to six months of IPO. 31:14 — The Most Dangerous Startup Category — Wrapping up the retrospective with a fresh scan: what's most dangerous to build right now, and why 2018–2022 vintage startups face the hardest road. 36:50 — H2 Dark Horses: Video Models and Nuclear — Peter bets on large video models; Aleksey goes long on nuclear energy infrastructure as the only serious compute scaling answer. Give us feedback or nominate topics & speakers at 6040podcast@techinasia.com.

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  Where is Asia’s smart money going?

  May 20, 202656 minS0

  <p>Markets are up despite an oil crisis, AI capex keeps climbing, and Asia's capital allocators are making big moves. So where is the region's smart money actually going?</p><p><br></p><p>Maria sits down with co-host Aleksey — global head of investment solutions at Leo Wealth — for a full market vibe check across the region. They get into the two camps dividing investors right now (are we in '98 or about to hit a wall?), why North Asia is eating Southeast Asia's lunch on capital flows, and the surprising case for nuclear energy making a comeback. </p><p><br><...

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  The AI Talent War in Asia: Who’s winning, who’s losing, and why

  May 7, 202644 minS0

  <p>AI isn’t just changing jobs—it’s splitting the job market in two.</p><p>In this episode, Maria and Peter break down what’s actually happening beneath the headlines: a flat overall job market, but a 50% surge in AI-related roles—and a growing divide between those who are compounding with AI and those being left behind.</p><p>They dig into:</p>Why the job market feels “fine” at the macro level—but is quietly fracturing underneathThe rise of the K-shaped workforce: AI-enabled winners vs. everyone elseWhich roles are at risk (hint: junior, transactional, and back-office jobs)Why layoffs aren...

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  Singapore wants to be an AI superpower. Will it work?

  Apr 19, 202644 minS0

  <p>Singapore is going all-in on AI.</p><p>From a Prime Minister–led AI council to billions in investment, talent visas, and national missions across healthcare, education, and beyond—the ambition is clear: become a global AI superpower.</p><p>But ambition is the easy part. In this episode, we break down the real question: can Singapore actually pull it off?</p><p>We go beyond the headlines to unpack where value in AI is really shifting—from building frontier models to deploying trusted AI systems in the real world. We explore why the future may belong not to the bi...

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