In this episode, we speak with Handol Kim. Handol is Co-Founder & CEO of Variational AI, an AI for drug discovery start-up based in Vancouver. Prior to co- founding Variational AI, Handol was General Manager of the Quadrant AI Business Unit of D-Wave Systems Inc, and brings over 20 years of executive management experience and leadership from venture-backed start-ups and publicly-listed technology companies in cloud, mobile/embedded, and telecommunications software in Silicon Valley, Canada and Asia Pacific. He has led global sales teams, strategic development, and project and product delivery to some of the world's largest companies.

Handol talks to us about redefining "failure" in the startup world, how the persona of the "Heroic Founder" can be quite detrimental, the difference between newer younger founders vs older more experienced founders, the importance of reasonability and how not to get yourself into bootstrapping financial hell, and how different cultures around the world tend to look at failure in vastly different ways.

Lots of good stuff in this one, so check out this episode of "What Scares Startups" for more!