Rex Li
Associate
Rex is an Associate for Eight Roads China and focuses on the Med Tech sector.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?

The opportunity and ability to shape the future China MedTech landscape. 

WHAT’S BEEN THE STEEPEST LEARNING CURVE ON YOUR CAREER JOURNEY SO FAR?

I have changed my hat so many times in the past few years, from researcher to entrepreneur, to consultant, and now to investor. The learning curve has been my worst enemy and best friend every single time. But the steepest one has to be when I tried to start a company based on the surgical tool invention derived from my Ph.D. research work. I still remember standing in a conference room full of MDs and investors and could not answer any of their questions regarding how exactly my invention can help them to eliminate any of their true pain points. That was the time I realized that devoting all your time in a lab alone cannot fix significant issues in real life. Ever since then, I started to pay more attention to how to help technologies/entrepreneurs to make the world a better place in a practical way.

WHICH TECH TREND ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT AT THE MOMENT AND WHY?

Synthetic Biology. It may and most likely will open up a whole new world for manufacturing previously hard-to-get materials and thus fundamentally change our everyday life.  

WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED?

Don’t try to compete with your shortcomings, focus on your unique advantages and master it.

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