Episode 11 Synopsis: Benjamin Joffe (@benjaminjoffe)from HAXLR8R joins us for an interesting discussion spanning from his travels around the world to his current role to help hardware companies to incubate and scale in the Shenzhen on-demand hardware global factory. In this discussion, Ben offered a primer to how entrepreneurs from all over the world can leverage on the Shenzhen ecosystem to build an integrated hardware and software companny and scale them out to the world. He shares his story as a consultant, an angel investor (and his three notable companies: CMUNE, Gengo & Tokyo Otaku Mode), a mentor in 500 Startups and HAXLR8R and his role within the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Of course, we have an intellectual discussion that focus on leveraging Huntingdon's "Clash of Civilizations" on messaging apps in Asia (WeChat, LINE, Kakao and Whatsapp) and Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs & Steel" on startup ecosystems from Silicon Valley to the rest of the world.
