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