Tough Little Juggernaut

So many people have turned to working from home, this seems like a good time to start a podcast. It will share the name of this blog, "Tough Little Juggernaut." The reason for the name is that a juggernaut is a cosmic piece of god-driven machinery, much like the imagination and resilience of a founder. I think that when you are founding a startup and trying to defy conventional wisdom and practice, driving a juggernaut is the closest thing to the experience. Of course, these folks are human. They are not superhuman. They work hard. They learn fast. They keep cruisin' through the bruisin'. That is worthy of our respect. This podcast will be a documentation of how different founders across Greater Southeast Asia tackle the vision and the challenges of building a driving a startup. I want to know as much about them as possible. And since I am not that smart, the only way I can do that is ask. I prefer not to live by assumption, and I also prefer not to be driven ...

Photo credit: CDC I think America is unprepared for COVID-19. The response looks horrible, from over here in Asia. For weeks, I have been writing about its race through China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. I post those thoughts on my personal Facebook page. For weeks, friends and family would write comments like, "Please stay safe," and "we are thinking of you." It's a decidedly American thing to believe that something "over there" is always going to happen to "those people" "over there." I don't think many of them have been thinking about the cost to lives this has brought, or the cost to business. My own immediate family in Taiwan, and my workplace, have been thrown about by this. For the first time in the ten years of the Accelerator, we had our opening day virtually. While other accelerators did public demo days (and could, because their founders have been in Taiwan for the whole time), I gazed at 28 teams through ...