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Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings
Sept. 24, 2021

Making Relationships Work: Kamarul Muhamed & Azita Azizan, Aerodyne Group

In a never-before like interview, we dive deep into the business of drones with the Malaysian power couple Kamarul A Muhamed and Azita Azizan who founded Aerodyne group, which is set to be the global leading provider of drone-based enterprise solutions, with over $30M raised, presence in over 35 countries, and over 350,000 assets inspected.

"When times are hard, hold on to your vision. Remember why you started in the first place."

 

👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:

- Why picking your co-founder is the most important choice you can make, the secret in choosing people to work with

- What it takes to build a global footprint, can you expand too fast?

- The future of drones and aerial robotics, should you be afraid?

 

⏳ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

02:29 - Why this idea, why now?

06:16 - Acquiring new customers, and proving the business case

10:52 - Taking the leap - how the power couple came to be

14:08 - Validating outside the country?

23:36 - Building for global growth - what strategy worked?

26:08 - Choosing the right partners and leaning into your intuition

30:52 - Rising expectations of the industry, aerial robotics and more

36:54 - Opportunity out of a crisis

39:12 - Billion Dollar Questions

 

About Aerodyne

Aerodyne Group (https://aerodyne.group) is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) drone-based enterprise solutions provider, and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology for large-scale data operations, analytics, and process optimization. Aerodyne is ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights (DII) in its ‘Drone Service Provider Ranking 2020’; was named Frost & Sullivan’s ‘Asia Pacific UAV Services Company of 2019’; and is a recipient of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia’s ‘Industry Excellence Gold Award 2019’. The company’s founder and Group CEO, Kamarul A Muhamed, is 'EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020'.

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