Emerging Markets Growth Leaders

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Emerging Markets Growth Leaders Podcast

Welcome to the Emerging Markets Growth Leaders podcast with True. On this show we speak with founders, investors and industry leaders from exciting businesses across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. We ask them to share their fascinating stories and invaluable market insights and experiences across eCommerce, Fintech and other Growth industries in some of the most fascinating locations in the world. Hosted by Sam Randall, Partner at True Search.

  1. S0204 - Customer Obsession, Covid and Contemporising Warungs - Alan Wong, CTO - Ula.app

    19/03/2021

    S0204 - Customer Obsession, Covid and Contemporising Warungs - Alan Wong, CTO - Ula.app

    This week, I am delighted to welcome Alan Wong, the Chief Technology Officer at Indonesian start up Ula. On this show we explore Alan’s stellar background at Amazon and Booking.com, his fascinating journey into the very current and fast growing world of B2B SME marketplaces and how customer obsessions is at the heart of everything that Ula do. We hear how this incredibly fast growing start up managed to grow throughout the covid pandemic and hear what is in store in the near future. Please find below the episode summary: 01:23 - welcome & backstory 07:23 - How Ula Started 10.18 - Learnings from Amazon - Customer Centricity & engaging around a mission 14:08 - Solving customer challenges 16:33 - Ula.app - Problem Statement 23.09 - On raising Series A 26.29 - On rapid scaling 31.38 - What’s next for Ula 36.13 - Challenges of growing a tech team in Asia 41.30 - On managing distributed teams and opinions on the future of workspaces 50.27 - Alan’s top tips on growing a business & closing thoughts 55.28 - Quickfire question round

    1h 5m
  2. S02E03 - The What, Why and How of Product Management with Yi Wei Ang, CPO @ Talabat

    18/02/2021

    S02E03 - The What, Why and How of Product Management with Yi Wei Ang, CPO @ Talabat

    This week, True Partner and MENA lead, Nathalie Spree and I are delighted to welcome Yi Wei Ang, the Chief Product Officer at Talabat to the show. During this incredibly informative deep dive into Product management we cover what product management actually is, how to get into product management, how to hire product managers and what a lot of businesses get wrong when hiring product managers. Please find below the episode summary: 01:15 - Welcome 2:44 - Yi Wei’s journey into Product Management 11:45 - What is Product Management 18:05 - What are the key skills needed in Product Management 23:09 - How to get into Product Management 27:53 - Considerations on Hiring a Product Management Leader 40:28 - How PMs can gain buy in & build trust 42:24 - Yi Wei’s key considerations, advice & predictions 49:00 - What needs to change in Product Management 50:45 - The future of Product Management 52:16 - Overview of the state of eCommerce in MENA 57:29 - Quickfire question round with both Yi Wei & Nathalie Reading List - Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love | Marty Cagan

    1h 4m
  3. S2E02 - Debbie Watkins, CEO & Cofounder of Lucy - Female Focus Fintech

    11/02/2021

    S2E02 - Debbie Watkins, CEO & Cofounder of Lucy - Female Focus Fintech

    This week on Emerging Markets Growth leaders I am thrilled to welcome CEO & Cofounder of Lucy, Debbie Watkins. Debbie joins me to share her experiences in the early days of micro finance and social enterprise in SE Asia. We discuss how Microfinance is impacting developing societies, some of the dangers for users and also talk through the underrepresentation and lack of support for female entrepreneurs in financial services. We then discuss how Lucy will go about addressing this gap, before finishing with the quick fire question round. Please find below the episode summary: 1:24 - Welcome 3:12 - Debbies first trip to SE Asia 6:29 - Setting up social enterprises in Cambodia 13:59 - The evolution of microfinance in SE Asia 16:41 - The dark side of microfinance & digital loan sharks 22:00 - The role of responsible businesses 23:32 - About the creation of Lucy 29:10 - Research into female owned businesses & access to finance 31:28 - What will Lucy do and how can it help? 50:15 - Quickfire Questions

    59 min
  4. S2E01 - Akshay Chopra, Head of Innovation & Product Design @ Visa CEMEA

    04/02/2021

    S2E01 - Akshay Chopra, Head of Innovation & Product Design @ Visa CEMEA

    This week, we are delighted to welcome Akshay Chopra, Head of Innovation & Product Design at Visa, CEMEA. Based in Dubai, Akshay covers the CEMEA Region, which comprises over 90 distinct markets in Central Europe, Middle East & Africa. Akshay joins us to share his unique and fascinating insights of payments and innovation across these regions, with a focus on the Middle East. Please find below the episode summary: 1:16 - Welcome & how have you been? 3:36 - Akshay’s role at Visa 9:10 - Design thinking principles & innovation labs 13:30 - Initial Impressions of the Middle East 17:33 - Exciting advances in the Middle East 22:56 - Russia, Central Europe & Africa - leaders in innovation 21:43 - Visa Innovation Department 32:28 - Fintech in the Middle East 36:03 - What we can look forward to? 40.48 - Quickfire question round

    47 min
  5. Ep12. Ditesh Gathani - Head of Engineering, Grab

    16/12/2020

    Ep12. Ditesh Gathani - Head of Engineering, Grab

    This week, we have an end of year bumper special with Ditesh Gathani, Head of Engineering from Grab. Ditesh joined Grab as one of the first few engineers back when it was called MyTeksi. He has grown with the business into a member of the senior leadership team and has run hundreds of technical staff across the core business lines of Grab, more recently heading up the Grab Financials engineering business. Ditesh generously shares a wealth of learnings, insights and some brilliant anecdotes in how they solved market first scale problems whilst growing one of Asia’s most successful technology companies. He also gives his views on the exciting future that technology will help bring about during a fun and very informative quick fire question round. Please find below the episode summary: 01:41 - Welcome - year in review & coping with COVID 09:51 - The early days & getting into computer science 11.16 - Applying data management principles to organisation management 19:21 - AirAsia 25:07 - Ditesh’s journey with Grab 31.56 - Grabs amazing growth 38:17 - How to maintain the vision & mission through growth 44:20 - Advice on growing and scaling a large organisation 48:51 - Building a great team and hiring team players 53:57 - Technical challenges of growth at Grab 1.04:52 - Best Practice vs Best Fit - Opinion vs Data 1.11:16 - Future of Grab & the Digibank 1.17:06 - Quick Fire Question Round

    1h 31m
  6. Ep11. Joydeep Sarkar Chief Analytics Officer @ Holmusk - cohosted by True Partner Jacob Sack

    24/09/2020

    Ep11. Joydeep Sarkar Chief Analytics Officer @ Holmusk - cohosted by True Partner Jacob Sack

    This week, in a special international collaborative episode of Southeast Asias growth leaders we welcome Joydeep Sarkar, the Chief Analytics officer of the Singapore & US headquartered mental health research and technology company Holmusk. Joydeep brings his wealth of experience in analytics in healthcare to share with us insights on the groundbreaking advances that Holmusk are making in this field. We discuss how research coupled with the latest technology and data availability is bringing to light new understanding of mental health. We also discuss the incredibly exciting future of healthcare and how the use of technologies such as NLP and Computer vision will revolutionise the industry. In this special edition I am equally delighted to welcome True Partner and Co-lead of the global healthcare practice Jacob Sack who joins the show as a Co Host.

    1h 12m
  7. Ep10. Lana Duong - VP Openspace Ventures

    04/09/2020

    Ep10. Lana Duong - VP Openspace Ventures

    This week we welcome Lana Duong, a VP of SE Asia headquartered early stage VC investor Openspace Ventures and holder of the prestigious accolade of Forbes 30 under 30 for Vietnam. Lana shares her fascinating journey from Investment banking into the VC world, we take a deep dive on what investors look for in a startup, and provide advice to founders on what the venture community really look for in early stage companies. We also take a whistle stop tour around SE Asia before discussing her attainment of the forbes award and the exciting market that is her home country of Vietnam.

    47 min
  8. Ep9. Sam Hall - APAC CEO Rainmaking

    20/08/2020

    Ep9. Sam Hall - APAC CEO Rainmaking

    This week we welcome Sam Hall, APAC CEO of Venture Builder Rainmaking. With a strong background in startups, growth and venture building in the corporate world, including founding and working with a number of startups and playing the role of Managing Director for the accelerator Startup bootcamp, Sam joins us to discuss the role that Venture builders like Rainmaking play in the corporate world, the challenges that large companies face in innovating, and the role that corporates can play in disrupting the startup world.

    1h 11m
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Welcome to the Emerging Markets Growth Leaders podcast with True. On this show we speak with founders, investors and industry leaders from exciting businesses across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. We ask them to share their fascinating stories and invaluable market insights and experiences across eCommerce, Fintech and other Growth industries in some of the most fascinating locations in the world. Hosted by Sam Randall, Partner at True Search.

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