Shu's Fresh Ideas Podcast

Michelle and Don Perugini, a husband and wife duo from Adelaide, South Australia are serial founders of three technology startups - ISD Analytics, Presagen and Life Whisperer. Their companies are centered around the application of predictive data analytics, behavioural modelling and AI into the fields of organisational decision making, process automation, and reproductive therapy. Michelle and Don both come from the academia, with PhDs in medicine and computer science respectively and have a passion for commercialising cutting-edge research. Apart from their startups, they also serve as mentors and investors within South Australia's growing startup ecosystem.

Episode 4 of my Shu’s Fresh Ideas Podcast delves deep into the world of online content with Bibblio founder Mads Holmen, a Danish entrepreneur based in London. Bibblio is a premium content recommendation service that is using machine learning to help publishers provide more intuitive content recommendations to their audience that they find useful and engaging. Bibblio works with top-notch publishers and institutions such as the National Geographic, New York Public Library and the Open University, and their goal is to help make the internet a place of immersive and holistic learning Mads and I went on a rather interesting ramble for an hour and talked about everything related to online content, from Facebook eco-chambers, globalisation, online education to a future in which AI driven machines might help us have more time in the day!! What will we do in this age of content Renaissance? Listen to find out.

In Episode 3, Jan Smejkal, director of Startup Grind China and Asia Pacific, joined me from Shenzhen, a bustling metropolis which has been described as China’s Silicon Valley. Originally from Czech Republic, Jan is helping build a connected ecosystem of entrepreneurs in China and APAC through the global Startup Grind network. Jan collaborates with the biggest tech companies in China, regularly interviews the most promising founders both from Asia and the West and is very passionate about educating and connecting founders from Asia to the rest of the world. I spoke to Jan about his perspectives as an expat entrepreneur living in China and get his advice on how to tap into the opportunities of the Asian Century.