From Australia to Silicon Valley: Leigh Jasper’s Amazing Journey with Aconex (Part 2)

Sramana: Let’s talk about the beginning of the company. You said you went out to raise venture capital in 2000. Was your proposal based on a prototype or just an idea? Leigh Jasper: Back then it was very hard to build a prototype. Today there are a lot of tools you can mash together to

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I have been trying to get entrepreneurship development in Kolkata moving since 1995, when I started my own entrepreneurial career. At the time, I was one of the first to set up a Silicon Valley startup with a development back-end in Kolkata. The environment was hard. The infrastructure was poor. Now, all that has changed.

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From Australia to Silicon Valley: Leigh Jasper’s Amazing Journey with Aconex (Part 1)

Leigh Jasper is the co-founder and CEO of Aconex, on online collaboration platform for construction, infrastructure, energy and resources projects. He has led the company through a decade of rapid growth, during which it became the world’s largest provider of project collaboration solutions for the construction, energy and resources sectors. Prior to founding Aconex, he

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