Asia Tech Lens - The Podcast

Inside the journeys of Asia’s tech founders — their turning points, playbooks, and what they learned along the way. www.asiatechlens.com

Asia Tech Lens - The Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Asia Tech Lens, with 11 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.

Asia Tech Lens hosts Asia Tech Lens - The Podcast, a technology show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Founder Playbook 2025: The Most Useful Insights From Our Podcast (Year-End Recap)

  Dec 22, 20251h 6mS1

  <p>We hit publish in October this year with a simple goal: have honest, operator-level conversations with founders building real businesses across Asia. Today’s episode is a rewind of the moments that stayed with us: building through pivots, the realities of raising money, hard decisions, and what it takes to scale across markets and time zones. Expect standout takeaways on AI learning and product validation, global payments and stablecoin rails, business lending, automotive marketplaces, and closing protection gaps through embedded insurance.</p><p>💡 What You’ll Hear About</p><p>* AI education before the hype, and what “AI” actually meant when...

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  Episode #9

  Inside Asia’s Biggest Protection Gap Opportunity

  Dec 8, 20251h 5mS1

  <p>In this episode, we sit down with Rob Schimek, Group CEO of bolttech, to unpack one of Asia’s most ambitious insurtech scale-up stories—and why the world’s protection gap is now a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity hiding in plain sight.</p><p>Rob has spent decades at the intersection of finance, risk, and technology. From leading a major global insurer to building one of the fastest-growing embedded-insurance platforms on the planet, his journey shows how insurance is becoming an essential digital-economy layer—as fundamental as payments, identity, or logistics.</p><p>We dig into the big structural questions:Why is insur...

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  Why This Fintech Veteran Is Betting on Stablecoins | Conversation with Eric Barbier

  Dec 1, 20251h 1mS0

  <p>In this episode, we sit down with serial entrepreneur Eric Barbier, who lives by a simple rule: “Where there is a problem, there is a business.”Eric has lived several chapters of the fintech story. He built a mobile-messaging startup, enabled international prepaid top-ups, and supported mobile-wallet remittances across regions from Southeast Asia to Africa. Throughout those chapters, the same operational issues kept appearing—pre-funding requirements, weekend and holiday settlement delays, failed payments, fraud exposure, and chargeback risk.Those long-standing inefficiencies eventually shaped his latest venture: Triple-A.io - a regulated payments institution that lets businesses accept and send stable...

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  Episode #7

  The Hard Truths Most Fintech Founders Learn Too Late | Conversation with Kelvin Teo

  Nov 24, 20251h 11mS1

  <p>This week on Asia Tech Lens, we unpack one of Southeast Asia’s most instructive fintech stories: how Kelvin Teo built Funding Societies | Modalku into the region’s largest SME digital lender — and the painful lessons most founders only learn the hard way.</p><p>The spark was unexpected. During his time at Harvard Business School, Kelvin heard Peter Thiel argue that Asia didn’t need “more innovation,” it needed better execution. That provocation pushed Kelvin and his co-founder, Reynold Wijaya, to confront a structural financing gap no one wanted to touch.</p><p>What followed was a decade of difficult...

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  Episode #6

  Why Superhexa Is Rethinking AI Glasses

  Nov 17, 202557 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Asia Tech Lens: Founder Stories, we sit down with Guo Jun, Co-Founder of Superhexa — a Beijing-based startup taking one of the boldest approaches in China’s AI hardware boom.</p><p>Superhexa is betting on an idea most of the industry got wrong.</p><p>More than 100 Chinese companies have rushed to launch AI glasses in the past 18 months — but most of those devices are too heavy, too hot, have weak battery life, or rely on AI features that don’t match how people actually use glasses.</p><p>Guo Jun argues the problem isn’t AI at al...

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