12 épisodes
Founder's Jam Shiyan Koh, Maria Rotilu
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Founder's Jam features stories of founders building impeccable technology startups in the world’s fastest-growing emerging markets.
Show hosts Maria Rotilu and Shiyan Koh will talk with founders about their experiences, the good and not so good highlighting the crosswinds, tailwinds, and nuances unique to emerging markets.
Founders will discuss how humbling the entrepreneurship experience can be, as well as the exponential impact potential of their ventures to radically transform the daily lives of users in their markets. Through this conversation, we are educated by founders first-hand on the realities of building a venture as well as the exponential impact of their ventures in emerging markets.
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Ep. 12: Christian (Chris) Duffus, Founder and CEO of Fonbnk
Christian (Chris) Duffus is the Founder and CEO of Fonbnk. Fonbnk is a US based company that allows people in Africa and other emerging markets to use prepaid mobile SIM cards to obtain cryptocurrency assets by exchanging their mobile credits, thus providing a borderless banking infrastructure.
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Ep. 11: Mario Peng, Co-Founder and CEO of PropertyScout
Mario Peng is a co-founder and CEO of PropertyScout. PropertyScout is a platform that reinvents the rental and purchase of residential properties for tenants and owners in Thailand by using tech, AI, and their own property consultants to remove hassles involved in the real estate process. During the COVID19 pandemic, PropertyScout has grown to be the market leader in home rentals in Bangkok.
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Ep. 10: Nik Talreja, Co-Founder and CEO of Sydecar
Nik Talreja is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sydecar, a platform for a new generation of investors that automates banking, compliance, contracts and reporting to remove the cost and complexity of the traditional VC back-office operations.
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Ep. 9: Steve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director of PropertyGuru
Steve is the co-founder and non-executive director of PropertyGuru, Southeast Asia’s largest online real estate portal.
In this podcast, Steve takes us back to 2007(!) and discusses the challenges of changing consumers and realtors’ behaviors when people were still used to using newspaper classifieds to find real estate! He chats about the pains of regional expansion and growth, as well as the bittersweet nature of handing leadership over to his successor. This podcast was recorded live as part of a discussion in June 2021. -
Ep. 8: Gillian Tee, Founder and CEO of Homage
Gillian is the founder and CEO of Homage, a platform that connects caregivers to patients across Southeast Asia and now, Oceania! After decades of economic growth powered by young workforces, Asian countries are now facing aging populations and lack adequate caregiving infrastructure to support it’s older citizens. Homage is bringing solutions to this market. Gillian brings a unique founder perspective, having founded a company in the US prior to moving home to Singapore where she started Homage.
In this podcast, Gillian discusses the joys and challenges of building a business that requires moving and treating reall people (not just code)!, collaborating with stakeholders (governments, insurance businesses) and shares highlights of the journey so far. This podcast was recorded live as part of a discussion in May 2021. -
Ep. 7: Miishe Addy, Co-Founder and CEO of Jetstream Africa
Miishe is the founder and CEO of Jetstream Africa, the continent's leading cross-border logistics technology company that makes it easier, faster, and cheaper for global companies to trade physical goods with emerging markets.
Prior to Jetstream, Miishe studied law at Stanford and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College. She started her career as a top-ranked strategy analyst for Bain & Company in New York, and has worked with global NGOs including TechnoServe, Global Partnerships, and the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.