The XA Podcast: Fostering Inclusive Innovation in Southeast Asia

Netflix has a unique approach to people and culture that is well known across the world. How did it maintain its strong culture through hyper-expansion? And what are some of the lessons in that for growth-stage founders?

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Shweta is the founder of The CultureGram, a platform for honest conversations about culture, the future of work, leadership, identity and embracing differences. Prior to this, Shweta was head of HR for Netflix in APAC, and part of the early management team in the region. Before that, Shweta led HR for Meta aka Facebook, across multiple countries in APAC. 

She is interviewed by Sergio Salvador, Chief People Officer of Carsome, who has prior experience at Egon Zehnder, Google, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Nokia as well as his own startup.

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The XA Network (formerly Xoogler Angels) was founded in 2018 as an exclusive investment network comprising senior executives from leading global and regional technology companies. Our mission is to provide smart capital to early-stage companies across Southeast Asia. The XA podcast brings together voices from the ecosystem that powers early stage investing across this vibrant region. Our guests include entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and of course XA Network investors.

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Startup founders often associate government organisations with being plodding creatures, slow to adapt and reluctant to embrace change. But what if the organisation in question is a tech startup of it's own, tasked with implementing the tools and tech needed by a future-friendly and forward-looking government? What does it take to build a culture of excellence in an organisation that aims to move an entire nation forward into an increasingly tech-enabled era?

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D N Prasad is currently Senior Director for Strategy, People and Organization with the Government Technology Agency (GovTech), Singapore and is responsible for Corporate Strategy, Human Resources, Workplace, Culture and Organization Development. He is interviewed by Sergio Salvador, Chief People Officer of Carsome, who has prior experience at Egon Zehnder, Google, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Nokia as well as his own startup.

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What worked as a new startup invariably stops working as you scale, especially so with people and teams. But the changes you need to make through various stages of growth can be surprisingly simple yet very effective.

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Sunil Setlur is the Global Chief People Officer at Gojek. He joined Gojek in 2019 and currently leads all aspects of human resource (HR) management at the company, with his function supporting thousands of employees around Southeast Asia. He is interviewed by Sergio Salvador, Chief People Officer of Carsome, who has prior experience at Egon Zehnder, Google, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Nokia as well as his own startup.

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Many startups aim to be disruptive and revolutionary, but how many can claim to be changing habits ingrained in us since the dawn of evolution? In this episode we discuss the opportunities and challenges faced by foodtech entrepreneurs as they navigate the consumer adoption, regulatory and production challenges of changing the way we eat.

In this episode we have Andre Menezes (Co-founder and COO of TiNDLE) , Fengru Lin (Co-Founder and CEO of Turtletree Labs) and Saurabh Bajaj (former CEO* of Just Asia), who discuss the nuances of this new-age business. They are interviewed by Belinda Ong, General Manager of the XA Network

* Saurabh was the CEO of Just Asia at the time of the recording in Jun 2021

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What do successful angel investors look for in South East Asian startups? What are they advising their investees to do in the current market environment? And how does an influential angel network like the XA Network help with business growth and sustainability?

Find out in this episode with Alap Bharadwaj (Director, Google), Tony Zameczkowski (VP, Netflix) and Belinda Ong (MD, XA Network), members of the exec committee of the XA Network, SE Asia's premier angel investing network.

They are interviewed by Bernard Leong, founder of the Analyse Asia podcast and an XA member himself. This episode first appeared on Analyse Asia and is being cross-posted on the XA Podcast.

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Have you ever wondered what it takes for a company to go public? How does the CEO prepare for the journey? What do investors look for? Find out directly from Hari Krishnan, CEO of recently-listed PropertyGuru about the steps and mis-steps they had on their journey to IPO.

Hari Krishnan is the Chief Executive Officer at the Property Guru Group, Asia's leading property technology company, where he recently led a successful public listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to Property Guru, Hari led LinkedIn in the Asia Pacific region, as the Vice President, and Managing Director. Apart from LinkedIn, Hari has successfully scaled operations in companies like Yahoo, Cisco, and Fox Interactive Media.

He is interviewed by Petrus Phoa, an XA member and the group Chief Information Officer at GoJek Southeast Asia's leading on demand ride hailing service platform. Prior to joining GoJek, Petrus worked at Orion governance, where he led business systems and operations.

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Could you ever imagine your “hobby” landing you in a position to impact millions of people around the globe? Or, better yet, heading down the path to IPO on just a single funding round? Well, that’s the story of Le Hong Minh, whose interest in playing online games led him to venture into the field of technology and founding his own company in 2004. If you're a keen hobbyist dreaming of making it into something more, check out today's episode of the XA Podcast!

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Mr.Le Hong Minh studied at the Monash University in Australia, working for PWC and VinaCapital before founding VNG in 2004. He is a leading thinker and speaker on technology trends, startups, and entrepreneurs in Vietnam. He is also a regular speaker on global stages, such as the World Economic Forum, Forbes on annual conferences, and the Economist conferences. Mr. Minh was honoured as one of the 10 most influential people on the Internet in Vietnam for the decade 2007-2017

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What do you expect from a market that doesn’t have a developed ecosystem? Many investors are extremely cynical about it and rightly so. But these markets have asymmetries that come with a huge potential for investors to discover ;building themselves and in turn the market as a whole. If you want to listen from an expert about how he entered and saw a whole market evolve across Asia, this episode of XA Podcast is for you.

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Hian Goh holds an MBA from INSEAD Singapore and a Law Degree from Trinity College, Oxford. He co-founded Openspace in 2014 and now sits on the Investment Committee and the Boards of Kumu, Nutrition Technologies, Love, Bonito, and FreshKet. He is a well-known investor in Southeast Asian countries.

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Before you have funding, or product-market fit, or a business even, you have your co-founders. And it has been said that the co-founder relationship is almost like a marriage. It can be a magical partnership, where you see each other through thick and thin. Or it could be a match made in hell, ending with your startup imploding. How does one create a co-founder dynamic that’s built to last?

Roland Ros and Rexy Dorado are the founders of Kumu, the largest live streaming community app for Filipinos around the world. Since their launch in 2018, Kumu has passed over 10 million registered users across 55 countries. They recently closed their Series C round bringing Kumu’s total funding to over US$ 100 million.

Prior to Kumu, Roland built a career as a growth engineer in the US with a track record of helping Fortune 500 and high growth companies acquire millions of customers. Subsequently, he engaged in humanitarian work in the Philippines, where he was inspired to build a tech company with social impact.

As for Rexy, prior to Kumu he founded Kaya Collaborative, a nonprofit that connects Filipino diaspora to social causes back home.

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XA Network was born out of the Google alumni network in 2018 and comprises senior leaders from global and regional technology companies, as well as founders of notable companies from across Southeast Asia. Our purpose is to foster inclusive innovation by empowering the tech community in Southeast Asia.

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Join as as we discuss some of the key challenges facing startups with Peng T. Ong, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures.

Peng is a startup industry veteran with over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. After stints as an early employee in multiple startups, he went on to found successes like Interwoven and Match.com. Subsequent to those exits, he moved into VC, eventually co-founding Monk's Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia and one of the first Valley-style VCs in SE Asia with entrepreneurs funding entrepreneurs. He is based in Indonesia.

Peng is interviewed by Belinda Ong, Managing Director of the XA Network.

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Matching people to the right jobs | The burden of leadership| Learning how to be a VC | Market valuations | The impact of Covid on the tech industry | How tech-enabled efficiency is shaking up old-school incumbents | Sorting substance from hype - coffee vs froth!

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XA Network was born out of the Google alumni network in 2018 and comprises senior leaders from global and regional technology companies, as well as founders of notable companies from across Southeast Asia. Our purpose is to foster inclusive innovation by empowering the tech community in Southeast Asia.

You can find out more about the XA Network here.

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