Asia Tech Podcast

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Mukesh Bubna spent over two decades woking for Citibank / Citigroup. He joined fresh out of college and in comparison to India's biggest state owned banks at the time, working at Citizens felt like working at a startup. Management structure was flat and this allowed Mukesh to jump right into interesting projects and learn the bank's operations from the ground up. This lead to moves from India to Singapore and Hong Kong and Mukesh was given the responsibility to help build out the bank's internet banking products and infrastructure. This required constant learning, a theme of Mukesh's entire career at Citi, education him in the agile process of building new software platforms and also getting client feedback as products were being developed. All of this experience now comes in handy as Mukesh and his team build the peer to peer lending business that is Monexo. There are many great nuggets of knowledge in this discussion, but one worth mentioning at the outset is Mukesh's concept of the twelve headed man...Listen as he explains this one and others himself.

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Andrew Nicholls is the Managing Director at HighEnd Media, which is a privately held organisation that serves the luxury lifestyle and fine watch markets in Asia, Europe and North America with a particular focus on the ultra high net worth consumer segment. HighEnd Media connects luxury product and service providers with new prospects and develops existing customer relationships through highly targeted print, digital and event activities. At its core, Luxury is some combination of scarcityof raw materials combined with highly skilled modes of production. I spoke with Andrew about the Luxury Digital market and was fascinated by the opportunities that online to offline presents in this space. Andrew is deeply knowledgeable about luxury products, how they are defined and the status and emotion they illicit in their customers. Technology is playing a larger part in the marketing of luxury goods and is becoming quite creative and powerful in implementing this in immersive experiences in controlled environments.

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Charles d'Haussy is Head of FinTech at Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for Foreign Direct Investment. In 2016, InvestHK has set up a FinTech team to attract leading FinTech companies, entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators from Mainland China and overseas to support their businesses set up and expansion in Hong Kong. The FinTech team is globally distributed between Hong Kong, London and Silicon Valley. They provide practical support and assistance on setting up offices, facilitating visa and banks accounts, regulator introductions, networking opportunities, guidance in government grants and funding.

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We had a fabulous conversation with Eileen Seah. She is an experienced and dedicated Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist. Eileen coaches employees and managers to be their best and focuses initially on having them simply understand themselves. This may sound easy, but in practice it takes a fair amount of effort and expertise. We touched on a multitude of interesting topics, including "Does authority come form your title or vice versa?", creating a work culture that encourages employees to want to come to work as opposed to having to come to work. Eileen believes that Coaching is an important and vital part of career development and maintenance.

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Aulia "Ollie" Halimatussadiah is the founder of Zetta Media in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the second time I've interviewed Ollie for a podcast; she's a guest I wanted to come back to because she's a unique character with her own blend of entrepreneurial guile and rebellious charm (she's a self-confessed "badass"). That's not the typical role expected of young women in Indonesia, but as you'll find out Ollie likes to push the boundaries of what's acceptable. Zetta is a content platform that enables Indonesians to tell their stories, often in ways they are not culturally accustomed to. It's her 3rd startup, the first two being bootstrapped publishing platforms. This is the first time she's actually gone out and raised capital. That's not easy when you are so used to growing businesses organically. One of Ollie's missions is to help build the startup ecosystem in Indonesia, especially for female entrepreneurs through StartupLokal and Girls in Tech Indonesia - with #WhyNot initiative supported by Facebook #SheMeansBusiness.

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In our weekly update for Asia Tech Podcast we introduce the latest poll for Best Startup Accelerator Program. This is a new poll, launched this week, with 555 votes at the time of writing. We also talk about a few surprises in our Awards, from Malaysia's Kenny Thing to Indonesia's Adhi Brahmantya.

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Max Ward is the CEO and Co-Founder of OpenPort. Max is a true logistics expert with deep coding and technology experience and a background building customer value across the full spectrum of supply chain services. His knowledge of supply chain management is unparalleled and that knowledge becomes more and more important every day. Max is deeply committed to solving the front to back challenges that the supply chain presents all the way from major shippers to families with two trucks in South Asia that provide critical last mile logistics and deliver services to Asia's rapidly growing consumer population. The opportunity on which OpenPort focuses is incredibly large at over $100BN and emerging Asia is the fastest growing region for his services.

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We all have a story...but we all do not have Rita Nguyen's story. Rita is Vietnamese by birth and grew up in Canada...her mother and father literally escaped from Vietnam in 1979 after 14 attempts with Rita and her siblings. After thriving in the corporate world, Rita decided she wanted to go to Vietnam and learn about the tech scene there. Once there, she realized she loved it so much, she could not leave. Another trip to Myanmar and another world of opportunities opened up. When Rita arrived in 2012, access to the internet was spotty at best, SIM cards were unheard of or insanely expensive and the digital infrastructure was nonexistent. All Rita saw was opportunity...We had a super discussion at the rapid speed of development of all things digital in Myanmar and just how quickly things can change in a short period of time. One of the many interesting things that we discussed was that the build out of the mobile networks in Myanmar was the first time that a country built a data-first network prior to building out its voice network...

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We spoke to Sahib Anandsongvit about the struggles of entrepreneurship, the pressures of failure and the expectations of success. Entrepreneurs that come from entrepreneurial families are a special group and Sahib is squarely in this category. He is third generation Indian-Thai and his family came to Thailand, built a business and in many ways that experience directly influences the story of Seekster. Sahib is sharp...and built and conceived Seekster out of his own experiences trying to get the proper level of service for a hotel he was managing. He realized there was a market gap for the type of service he wanted and also noticed that simply creating a marketplace for that service was not good enough. Listen as he explains how he changed to building a robust platform and how it changed his business into the growth opportunity it is today.

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Martin Daffner has decades of experience driving innovation and building innovation organizations with firms like Procter & Gamble, Cisco and Avery Dennison. Martin has developed significant expertise in building an organization\'s capability to consistently drive growth through innovation. This endeavor MUST include reaching out well beyond the walls of the firm. Having spent the last 10 years in China, Martin has created new capability development tools that leverage the entrepreneurial spirit and energy of start-ups and academia to help drive business growth.