Exploring the world of investing with Yipin Ng, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Yunqi Partners

In this episode YiPin Ng tells us how he went from an engineer at Sun Microsystems to founding Yunqi Partners and how he got into the world of investing. He then explains the many factors that contribute to his decision when investing such as the idea, its team, and most importantly the founder. He then explores the idea of starting your own business and fitting in a startup such as learning from your mistakes and determining to try again. We conclude the discussion with the future of AI and the idea of traditional and corporate VCs working together. Throughout this podcast we learn many insights from Yipin surrounding startups and VCs with many examples to back them up.  Yunqi Partners specializes in AI, big data, cloud computing, fintech, B2B, and other industries, with assets totalling billions of RMB.

Shownotes: 

1:13 Getting to know YiPin
2:32 How Yipin got into the world of investing
5:28 What fascinates Yipin the most about investing and what keeps him in the industry
7:07 Core qualities of a founder 
9:38 Breaking rules
10:51 Why Yunqi chooses to focus on AI, cloud computing, and autonomous driving
13:22 Yunqi‘s focus on AI for good
14:54 Selecting criteria
18:38 Deal sourcing 
19:50 Advise for any aspiring entrepreneurs 
21:32 Finding your role within a startup
25:48 Future of AI 
29:10 The future of VCs with more and more corporate VCs emerging