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Ronald Ishak - Developing Indonesia’s Technical Talent

April 20, 2021

Indonesia is in the midst of a technical renaissance. Within the past ten years, Indonesia has gone from a country confused by tech startups, to a booming industry with multiple billion dollar companies. But as the excitemen…

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Samira Shihab - Bootstrapping an Fashion Marketplace

April 13, 2021

Samira Shihab is the co-founder and CEO of Tinkerlust, a secondhand fashion marketplace in Indonesia. Shihab spent much of her youth in Pennsylvania and then moved to Silicon Valley to get her MBA. After moving back to Indon…

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Cleo Randing: Making Insurance Simple

April 5, 2021

Roughly 2% of all Indonesians have insurance. While fintech gets a lot of the headlines, insurance has an equally large opportunity in Indonesia. Cleo Randing is the founder and CEO of PasarPolis, an insurance startup using …

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Pamitra Wineka - The Accidental Entrepreneur

March 22, 2021

Today's guest is TaniHub Group co-founder and president, Pamitra Wineka, otherwise known as Eka. TaniHub is on a mission to help Indonesian farmers get more reliable and higher income from each of their harvests. They do thi…

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Nipun Mehra - Powering Indonesian Retail

March 16, 2021

Today’s guest is Nipun Mehra, co-founder and CEO of Ula. Ula is on a mission to help offline retail shops with their wholesale purchasing. It’s hard getting reliable products at wholesale prices and there are many different …

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Hiro Kiga - From VC to Founder

Feb. 23, 2021

Hiro Kiga is the co-founder and COO of Wallex, a B2B fintech company. His career started as a developer at a bank and moved into venture capital before getting the itch to build something. We’ve heard entrepreneur stories he…

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Gita Sjahrir - Improving Health and Equality

Dec. 29, 2020

The final guest of Season 1 is Gita Sjahrir. She’s the co-founder and CEO of R Fitness, a growing health and wellness startup, focused on helping improve the lives of all Indonesians. Our conversation transcends the R Fitnes…

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Pangeran Siahaan - Quality Media, Beyond Clicks

Dec. 21, 2020

Today’s guest is Pangeran Siahaan, co-founder and CEO of Asumsi.co. Asumsi is a leading millennial media publication. Founded in 2017, the site has been bootstrapped until recently, when they raised a seed round from East Ve…

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Ilya Kravtsov - Reinvention Amidst a Pandemic

Nov. 27, 2020

Covid-19 has crushed businesses around the world. Especially those in the food, travel, and live events space. Today my guest is Ilya Kravtsov, co-founder and CEO of PouchNATION. PouchNATION is an event-based, crowd manageme…

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Melia Winata - Growing a Social Enterprise

Nov. 9, 2020

Today's guest is Melia Winata, co-founder and CMO of Du Anyam. Du Anyam is a social enterprise that works with female communities to create wicker products. They were the official merchandise of the 2018 Asian Games and thei…

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Tiger Fang - Lessons From High Growth Startups

Oct. 11, 2020

From the outside, being a tech founder seems like a sexy job. But the reality is far different. It’s lonely and a constant struggle. Today my guest is Tiger Fang, co-founder and CEO of Kargo, a digital logistics company in I…

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Irma Surya - Simplifying Legal Advice

Sept. 8, 2020

TV has romanticized lawyers with shows like Suits, The Practice, and the Good Wife. But the reality is, legal advice is expensive and overwhelming, especially for small to medium sized businesses. In the US, companies like L…

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Reducing Plastic Waste in Indonesia

Aug. 24, 2020

Plastic waste is a huge problem in Indonesia. It’s the second largest polluter globally at 3.22 metric tons a year. Today on the podcast we have two very ambitious women, both looking to make a dent in Indonesia’s plastic wa…

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Indra Wiralaksmana - Building a Muslim Social Network

Aug. 11, 2020

Across the globe, there are 1.7 billion Muslims, second only to Christianity at 2.3 billion. This represents a huge opportunity. Today's guest is Indra Wiralaksmana, co-founder and CEO of Umma . Umma is a Muslim community ba…

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William Tunggaldjaja - Competing with Ecommerce Goliaths

July 14, 2020

We live in a world where anything we want is one click away. Ecommerce has made this possible. No matter which part of the world you're in, there is an ecommerce giant dominating the market. In the US there is Amazon. In SE …