Raised on Rice Annette Osmena

How is Eskwelabs democratising the future of work in the Philippines through data skills education? How do they help individuals start a new career and help corporations upskill their employees? What is it that makes Eskwelabs more customised and effective than MOOCs? 

How did Angela go from a career in finance to becoming a social impact entrepreneur? What does it mean to be a social impact leader? This and more in this episode of Raised on Rice with Angela Chen, the co-founder and CEO of Eskwelabs.

How does indoor farming work and how is it different from traditional farming? What are the benefits and challenges of growing produce indoors?

Learn from Future Fresh’s co-founder and CMO, Derya Tanghe, about their growth journey and his own personal journey from the fashion industry, to finance and consulting, to.. farming? All of this and more about how Future Fresh started and is growing to provide fresh, locally grown produce in the Philippines with no pesticides, no soil, no harmful fertilizers, and with 90% less water than traditional farms in this week’s episode.

Check them out at: futurefresh.ph

Why do people hate filing their taxes? How is Taxumo educating and helping entrepreneurs and SMEs? How are they helping to digitalise such a tedious, manual process? How did they grow to become the number one online filing platform for the self-employed and small business owners?  

EJ & Ginger Arboleda share what they've learned, how they've grown, and how they used feedback, testing, and reiteration to turn one of Ginger's challenges as an entrepreneur into a fast-growing business venture. 

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Filipino livestreaming app, Kumu, has been topping the charts on the Apple and Google Play stores. In just 2 years, they've grown into a community of millions of active users including biggest brands and artists in the media and entertainment industry. Through creating a virtual gifting economy, Kumu gave users a way to support each other to become Financially Successful Creators. They've revolutionised social TV through gameshows and an interactive season of Pinoy Big Brother. What's next? Sending someone to space? 

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21 Million people in the Philippines belong to the "informal work economy", meaning they're not professionally employed. 98% of total registered business in the country are considered micro- or small-to-medium-sized enterprises. How did AllCare build a benefits membership for this huge underserved market, when few people believed in them? How did they use what they learned from customers to optimize their sales & marketing to grow almost 10X this year? 

Cindy Burdette, CEO and co-founder of AllCare, tells us about how they overcame their early stage struggles and used a scientific approach to scale their platform and gain experience, respect, and a big user base. 

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How has Brankas changed financial services in Indonesia, the Philippines, and now Thailand? Why and how do they manage a distributed team who've been working remotely in different countries since before the pandemic? How did they create FOMO and convince banks to adopt new technologies and set up better digital banking infrastructure? 
Todd Scheweitzer, CEO and co-founder of Brankas, dives deep into the challenges and opportunities of the banking and fintech industry in Southeast Asia. He shares some insights into his company's success: building a screen scraper to demonstrate demand, working closely with regulators, educating and partnering with banks, and generating interest by setting a new standard for how we complete transactions.