Smart City Use Cases and Opportunities: Jay Chandan, CEO of Gorilla Technology (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In those situations, they are the tier one system integrator and you come in as a tier two or tier three. Jay Chandan: I’m happy being tier two. I wouldn’t call myself tier three today. Sramana Mitra: Your genesis is Taiwan. Where are you getting the traction? Is it more in Southeast Asia?

Smart City Use Cases and Opportunities: Jay Chandan, CEO of Gorilla Technology (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The point that I’m probing here is, you have a cybersecurity business. Then you have a transportation management business. Is that the best way to manage a business to have such diversity? In each of those, you’re going to encounter pure play providers. Cybersecurity is an extraordinarily competitive market. You’re going to be

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Smart City Use Cases and Opportunities: Jay Chandan, CEO of Gorilla Technology (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How do you do that? How do you intervene in reducing infractions? Jay Chandan: That is by better traffic management at the intersections. We have a traffic management solution which we have built and deployed at a fraction of the cost.

Smart City Use Cases and Opportunities: Jay Chandan, CEO of Gorilla Technology (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is it a product company or a services company? Jay Chandan: It’s a mix. Today, about 60% of our revenue comes from product and about 40% from services. Sramana Mitra: What’s in the product?

Smart City Use Cases and Opportunities: Jay Chandan, CEO of Gorilla Technology (Part 1)

Jay talks about Gorilla’s Smart City system integration business that heavily focuses on IoT security, analytics, and workflow. In the end, we discuss open problems that could warrant new entrepreneurs building startups around. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What

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