From Goa to Silicon Valley to China’s innovation frontier — Kapil Kane’s journey is anything but ordinary.
In the latest episode of the German Innovators Podcast, Bettina and Johannes speak with Kapil Kane, former Apple Product Designer and Intel China Innovation Leader, about:
- How Zen principles secretly shaped Apple’s product culture
- Why compartmentalization — not open innovation — was the secret weapon behind the iPad
- The Intel GrowthX accelerator: empowering intrapreneurs to act like startup founders
- Why ASICs might overtake GPUs — and how China’s AI chip strategies are flipping the script
- What Silicon Valley, China, India, and Africa each uniquely contribute to global innovation
- A powerful reminder that culture eats structure for breakfast — especially when scaling innovation
- His take on quantum computing’s real-world limitations (spoiler: diamond NV centers may win)
Kapil’s advice for innovators:
“Be excellent in one thing — but understand many. The best ideas often come from adjacent knowledge collisions.”
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