Ep 9: Generating next Hard Tech Unicorns (with Duncan Turner, General Partner @SOSV)

Update: 2021-07-05

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Our guest for this episode is Duncan Turner, a general partner at SOSV, one of the most active seed investors in the world and the first accelerator to generate unicorns in Asia. Duncan manages HAX, the world's first and largest VC backed program for hardware.

We discuss how Duncan evaluates hard tech start-ups that are early in their research and development process and why hard tech companies should monetize through software.

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Ep 9: Generating next Hard Tech Unicorns (with Duncan Turner, General Partner @SOSV)

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Ep 9: Generating next Hard Tech Unicorns (with Duncan Turner, General Partner @SOSV)

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Ep 9: Generating next Hard Tech Unicorns (with Duncan Turner, General Partner @SOSV)