Longspeech

Longspeech

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Longspeech episodes

  • Aulia (Llia) Halimatussadiah -- Co-founder and CMO of Storial
    with Aulia (@salsabeela), Co-founder and CMO of Storial.co, a marketplace for stories. She shared about her experience as a writer, how she started because of manga before being a professional writer of 30 books. As a serial entrepreneurs, she shared what motivates her to keep creating, facing adversity, and dealing with failures. She also talked about how Storial solves not only her personal's issue but also writer's in general. How Storial provides better platform for writers and readers, helping to get faster feedback loop and better monetary incentives. She is also involved in Girl In Tech Indonesia as Co Managing Director, a non-profit organization with the goal to empower women in tech industry. Finally she shared about one book she thinks every entrepreneur should read, a philosophy book about Stoicism. What is Stoicism, how to practice it, why it matters, how she has practiced it so far, and why is it the fundamental. Find out more about Aulia at IG: @salsabeela; Storial at website: storial.co.
    43 min
  • Shiyan Koh -- Managing Partner of Hustle Fund VC
    With Shiyan Koh (@shiyankoh), Managing Partner of Hustle Fund VC, a SF-based VC investing in a hilariously-early founders. Shiyan talked about her first tech experience, before her experience transitioning as an operator in a startup at NerdWallet back to as VC in Hustle Fund. Explaining what's Hustle Fund VC's thesis, deal flows, targets, and goals. She also shared about how Covid-19 situation right now is worse than the two before, crisis of 2000 and 2008, not only economically but also socially. Find more about Shiyan at Twitter: @shiyankoh; Hustle Fund VC at twitter: @hustlefundvc, website: hustlefund.vc.
    40 min
  • Irzan Raditya -- CEO and Co-founder of Kata.ai
    with Irzan Raditya (@irzanraditya), CEO and Co-founder of Kata.ai. He shared about how he got into tech since childhood, growing up passionate in music. He also talked about study in Germany, showing entrepreneurial spirit with few side projects that led to future co-founders. Started Kata, an ai company specializing in chatbot,  as soon as moving back to Jakarta with 4 co-founders. How ai can help solve problems, future of ai, and talent problem in ai industry. With Qlue, Volantis, Qiscus, and MDI Ventures, working on Indonesia Bergerak, providing realtime data about COVID-19 situation in Indonesia. You can find more info about Kata at web: kata.ai, IG: @katadotai, and Indonesia Bergerak at web: indonesiabergerak.com.
    54 min
  • Benson Putra & Jazz Pratama -- CEO & CMO of Bartega

    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.

    1 hr 11 min
  • Daniel Shen -- CEO and Founder of Soqqle

    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

    1 hr 5 min
  • Aldi Adrian -- VP of Investments at MDI Ventures

    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.

    1 hr 18 min
  • Tyo Guritno -- CEO and Co-founder of Inspigo

    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.

    1 hr 14 min
  • Gustaf Alströmer -- Partner at Y Combinator
    with Gustaf Alströmer (@gustaf), Partner at Y Combinator, previously Growth at Airbnb. Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator that has funded over 2,000 companies over 29 batches since 2005. Combined valuation at over $150 billion with some of the famous ones are Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Coinbase, Instacart, from Indonesia they have Xendit, Payfazz, Ajaib, Eden Farm, and Nusantara Technology. Gustaf talked about how he taught growth at YC, how he started to be interested in South East Asia Region, and his experiences in managing Indonesian Startups Alumni. Talked about famous YC teaching such as Make Something People Want, Do Things that Don't Scale, and Product/market Fit. Advices and views about trends, regulations, and pros and cons in joining YC as Indonesian companies. You can find more info about Gustaf at twitter: @gustaf, IG: @gustaf, Y Combintor at IG: @ycombinator, website: ycombinator.com, twitter: @ycombinator, Startup School at website: startupschool.org. Spoken in English. For updates about Longspeech go to IG: @longspeech.
    Do Things that Don't Scale Essay by Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
    53 min
  • Norman Sasono -- CTO of DANA Indonesia

    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.

    1 hr 11 min
  • Edward Ismawan Chamdani -- Managing Founder and Partner of Ideosource Ventures

    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.

    1 hr 7 min

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Joined by Indonesian startup founders and VCs. We explore the story and journey behind startups and what we can learn from it.