with Benson (@bensonputra) and Jazz (@jazzpratama), CEO and CMO of Bartega Studios. They talked about the three of them, including Nadia Daniella, knew each other and started Bartega. How none of them is from art or design background. They shared why they believe Bartega will be big and took the risk of leaving their steady jobs to start Bartega. You can find more info about Bartega at IG: @bartega.studio, website: bartega.com; Jazz at IG: @jazzpratama; Benson at IG: @bensonputra.

with Daniel Shen (@dansoqq), CEO and Founder of Soqqle. He shared about how programming is the only thing he liked to learn as a kid and the only one among peers to still in tech industry. How he started in banking industry with Standard Chartered and then JP Morgan as developer and as PM, learning about management and negotiation. Joining a startup in Hong Kong before finally building Soqqle, social learning for classroom.  How he managed a team of gig workers, tips and tricks to make gig economy works, working as solo founder,  develop the product and acquiring market in SEA, including Indonesia. You can find more about Soqqle at website: soqqle.com

with Aldi Adrian (@aldiadrians), VP of Investments at MDI Ventures. He shared about his unprivileged background, his mentor, and how he started his VC journey, from Fenox Ventures to Mandiri Capital to right now at MDI Ventures. How VCs evolve to care more about unit of economics, how he evaluates startups, and how investment is all about luck. He also shared why he thinks next generation of successful founders will be 'mafia' from great tech companies. Aldi talked about  why he thinks relationship is important and about his favourite books and podcast from Scott Galloway and Aswath Damodaran. You can find more info about MDI Ventures at MDI.VC. Drop your pitch deck to email [email protected] with subject: from Longspeech Podcast.

with Tyo Guritno (@tyoguritno), CEO and Co-founder of Inspigo.id. He shared how he started to be interested in tech, then as marketing and finance graduate deciding to focus on design and creative in career. His journey in Silicon Valley, worked in well-known companies such as Electronic Arts, Pandora, as well as started and exited 2 companies. Then he moved back to Indonesia and started Inspigo, he shared how it happened, what things he applied from experiences to manage it, his favourite topics, and what is the future of Inspigo. Finally he shared why his Instagram account is followed by Rihanna. You can find more info about Inspigo at IG: @inspigo.id, website: inspigo.id. Spoken in Indonesia and English. Hosted by Satya Kalama (@acekalama), for info and updates about Longspeech go to IG: @longspeech.

with Norman Sasono (@nsasono), CTO of DANA Indonesia, previously Co-Founder and CTO of Bizzy and LoyaltiExpress. He shared how a boy from Bali with military family line from both grandpas could be interested in technology, his journey before he joined Microsoft for 7 long years. After that how he co-founded two companies with his friends, LoyaltiExpress and Bizzy as CTO. Then he shared how he left Bizzy after 3 and a half year to join DANA as CTO, opportunities to learn fintech, building highly scalable and secure system towards Indonesia cashless society and be a pillar in Indonesia Digital Economy. How to hire engineers and develop them and their career path. Finally he shared his mental model to stand firm against adversity, hard physical training with BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-jitsu) and CrossFit. You can find more info about DANA at IG: @dana.id, website: dana.id. Spoken in Indonesia and English. For updates about Longspeech go to IG: @longspeech.

with Edward Chamdani (@ismawandchamdani), Managing Partner and Co-founder of Ideosource VC. He shared about his days as tennis player, going as far as attending school in USA for it, then how it led him to start a VC firm. Then his works before consultant and founders before shifting to investing. Importance of complement value with partner, struggle as first time VC, finding lucky break in his first investment, passing opportunity investing in Gojek. He also shared how Ideosource aimed to be different from traditional VC by aiming for long-term vision with value investing with Film Fund and more. You can find more info about Ideosource at IG: @ideosource, website: Ideosource.com. Spoken in Indonesia and English. For updates about Longspeech go to IG: @longspeech.