Asia Untangled

Sam Scibetta and Sushaant Bakhru

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Asia's Untold Business Stories.

Aug 26

Infosys

How did seven middle-class engineers with almost no capital build one of India’s most influential technology companies? In Episode 2 of Untangled, we trace the rise of Infosys - from an India where importing a computer could take years, and software entrepreneurs struggled to convince American clients they were credible, to the emergence of a global IT services industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Along the way, we explore the policies, personalities and unlikely turning points that shaped Infosys: India’s License Raj, the rise of the IITs, Narayana Murthy’s philosophy of “compassionate capitalism,” economic liberalization, Y2K and the outsourcing boom. Finally, we bring the story to today - and ask whether AI represents the next great opportunity for Indian IT, or a fundamental threat to the model that made Infosys a giant.
Jul 16

Innovent Biologics

China's biotech industry has gone from afterthought to global force in barely a decade, and Innovent Biologics sits at the centre of that rise. In this episode, we follow founder Dr Yu Dechao on an unlikely path: from a small village in China to UCSF, the birthplace of Genentech, before he turned his back on Silicon Valley biotech to build a world-class company where the science, capital and talent had yet to arrive. Join us as we unpack the dynamics of this fast-moving sector, and the forces shaping it today.

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Asia's Untold Business Stories.

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Sam Scibetta and Sushaant Bakhru
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2026
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