Indo Tekno Podcast
138 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago -A podcast devoted to covering major trends that drive the Indonesian tech scene.
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The Investor View: David Halpert of Prince Street Capital
March 08, 2021 20:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBVeteran emerging markets fund manager David Halpert, Founder of Prince Street Capital, reflects on his history of deep involvement in Indonesia, including key early investments in national champions such as Gojek. Indonesia is a key component of Prince Street's unique "digital decolonization" strategy, which David describes in detail. He also discusses important tech-related initiatives such as the ongoing attempt to create a fully integrated electric battery/EV manufacturing chain in Indo. ...
Worker Financial Health & EWA: Vidit Agrawal of GajiGesa
March 01, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBIndonesia unemployment last year surged to its highest level since 2011. GajiGesa Cofounder Vidit Agrawal discusses the concept of Earned Wage Access, and how employers use the technology to address employee financial stress, which otherwise can drive lost productivity and absenteeism. EWA positively impacts retention and the employee experience, and is proving a valuable tool in teaching financial responsibility to low and middle-income workers.
Open Banking, Explained: Todd Schweitzer & Mike Dickinson of Brankas
February 22, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBBrankas leads Indonesia's nascent "Open Banking" movement. It seeks to address friction in digital banking, collapse costly layers of middlemen, and change business models on payments, credit scoring and more. Brankas CEO Todd Schweitzer and CPO Mike Dickinson share views on Indonesia's banking and payments systems today, and offer some predictions on the future of Indonesian Open Banking. (Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini)
Hari-Hari Awal: Kevin Aluwi of Gojek
February 15, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBKevin Aluwi, co-founder and co-CEO of Gojek, offers a candid, brick-by-brick account of the company's most formative early successes and challenges; from the insights that informed the creation of GoFood, to touch-and-go moments in fund-raising. Join us as Kevin offers his own definition of "super-app", reflects on the complexities of creating a successful development team, and discusses valuable synergies with partners Google and Tencent. (Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini)
The ABC's and ESG of Sharia Fintech: Dima Djani of ALAMI
February 08, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB"50% of our borrowers are non-Muslim", states Dima Djani, CEO of leading Sharia finance platform ALAMI. Sharia banking's broad appeal to millennials with its "transparency, social impact, and prudent and responsible qualities" should raise its weighting in Indonesia's banking sector from 6% currently to a government target of 15% by 2023. Join us as Dima outlines ALAMI's plans to triple business in 2022 in pursuit of dominance in financial technology across the broader Muslim world. (Transk...
Impact VC 101: Dondi Hananto of Patamar Capital
February 01, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBWe are in the midst of an impact investing boom. Guest Dondi Hananto of Patamar Capital dispels many misconceptions around impact investing. He argues that intensive measurement of both "bottom lines" (Financial/Operational and Impact) can deliver outsized returns and do social & environmental good at the same time. Dondi shares powerful stories of mission-based portfolio companies mClinica & Mapan/Ruma; and anecdotes of successful female-led businesses Danacita & Sayurbox.
Enhancing SME Efficiencies: Gabriel Frans of CrediBook
January 25, 2021 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBGabriel Frans, Cofounder & CEO of CrediBook, discusses how his company seeks to modernize traditional cash management amongst Indonesia's 56m SME's. Gabriel describes the benefits of building joint solutions with long time associate Hendra Kwik of PayFazz. He also explains the mystique of his alma mater, leading engineering school ITB. A man of many talents, Gabriel created this week's musical soundtrack. (Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini...)
Impact: Randy Jusuf of Google Indonesia
January 18, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBFew internet platforms have the ability to affect change on such a massive scale as Google. The company has trained 1.7m Indonesian business owners (500,000 female), and seeks to support 45m students with their distance learning needs. Randy Jusuf, MD for Google Indonesia, walks us through the company's massive efforts to bring more Indonesians online, support 22,000 school teachers in their educational mission, help industries evolve digitally through the pandemic, and reinvigorate the jobs...
The 'Kosts' of Indo Co-living: Sabrina & Sarah Soewatdy of Rukita
January 11, 2021 21:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBIn our first podcast of 2021, Sabrina and Sarah Soewatdy, co-founders of leading Indonesia co-living platform Rukita, discuss how they have revolutionized Indonesia's traditional "kost" model. They also reflect on how COVID led to dramatic yet successful shifts in Rukita's customer focus, the blatant honesty between sister/co-founders, and the digital demands of Indonesia's millennial university student and young professional. Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini.
Many Paths to IPO: Delano Musafer & Jennie Dong of NYSE
December 21, 2020 21:00 - 12 minutes - 8.52 MB"I would expect Indonesian IPO's in 2021 and 2022," states Delano Musafer, Head of Asia-Pacific Capital Markets for the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange). Delano is joined in the third episode of our “From Warung to Wall Street” series by his colleague Jennie Dong, Head of SPAC’s at the NYSE. Jennie’s insights are very timely, given recent news that Peter Thiel’s Bridgetown SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) may seek to merge with Indonesia e-commerce stalwart Tokopedia in a ~USD10b dea...
Cruising Post-COVID: Aaron and Aditya of Carro
December 15, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBA November Ernst and Young report reveals that nearly a third of those without a car surveyed intend to buy a car in the next six months. They cite the COVID-19 pandemic, originally blamed for a near paralysis in car-buying earlier in 2022, as one of the top reasons for the planned surge in purchase activity. Aaron Tan and Aditya Lesmana, cofounders of Carro, Southeast Asia's largest automotive marketplace, join us to discuss this recovery, the application of AI to the online car industry, ...
Good Talent? Hard to Find!: Antonio Mazza of WeNetwork
December 07, 2020 21:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MB"Talent Shortage" is far-and-away the biggest challenge cited by Indonesian tech employers in this year's RGF HR report. Our guest Antonio Mazza, co-founder of leading Indonesia-based recruitment firm WeNetwork, reveals that 80% of hiring managers claim that the shortage of tech talent is so severe that it has negatively impacted speed of product development. Not surprisingly, Product and Engineering roles are the most common recruiting mandates amongst WeNetwork's clientele. Antonio on th...
The Future Pharmacy: Farouk Meralli of mClinica
November 30, 2020 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBThe Indonesian authorities have "done a great job in negotiating with the COVID vaccine suppliers for advanced commitments," says today's Indo Tekno Podcast guest, Farouk Meralli of mClinica. "Where it's going to get very difficult is distribution. This is a logistics effort like we've never seen before." mClinica is Southeast Asia's largest online pharmacy network. Its all-digital Trade and Patient solutions enable more than 40,000 pharmacies, who interact with 150 million patients, to ope...
People as Priority: George Hendrata of Tiket.com
November 23, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB"Our advantage is our people," states George Hendrata, CEO of Indonesian online travel agent (OTA) Tiket.com. The term "people" in fact comes up no less than 30 times in our interview, more than four times as frequently as the average guest on the Indo Tekno podcast. This philosophy, quite common throughout the broader Djarum Group, espouses not just Tiket.com employees, but also the platform's obsession with customer service. Tiket.com seeks to democratize travel for the average Indones...
Transforming Groceries: Guillem Segarra of HappyFresh
November 16, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBNearly 50% of grocery delivery customers in the past six months had never used such services prior to COVID, according to the new Google Temasek Bain "e-Conomy SEA 2020" report. In this episode, we invite on Guillem Segarra, CEO of HappyFresh. Guillem discusses this radical growth in demand; how HappyFresh as the region's leading pure-play has dealt with an influx of competition from Gojek, Grab and others; and what the future looks like for Indonesia's supermarkets. Having adopted an asset...
Credit Where It Counts: Akshay Garg of Kredivo
November 09, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBCredit card ownership in Indonesia has risen at an anaemic 2.3% CAGR over the past 10 years, this despite an absolute burgeoning in use cases such as e-commerce and other forms of consumption in the country. JP Morgan for instance last year estimated that there were a mere 0.59 e-commerce enabled debit cards per capita and 0.07 e-commerce enabled credit cards per capita in Indonesia. Our guest this week is Akshay Garg, Cofounder and CEO of FinAccel, which operates Kredivo, its flagship “Bu...
The Big Picture: Gita Wirjawan of Ancora Group
November 02, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MB"I try to spend every day...with somebody who is in the tech space," comments Pak Gita Wirjawan. This week's guest to the Indo Tekno Podcast brings to bear insights from a sweeping career which ranges from government service at the highest levels, to extensive involvement in Indonesia's tech ecosystem as entrepreneurial investor and mentor. Most widely known as Indonesia's Minister of Trade from 2011 to 2014, Gita Wirjawan reflects on the broad tapestry of interests that he began to weave f...
Fintech's Golden Opportunity: Claudia Kolonas of Pluang
October 26, 2020 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) ... While the average Indonesian has always had an appreciation of gold as a reliable investment, the ravages of COVID have driven massive volumes into this "safe haven" asset. The user base of Indonesia's leading digital gold and investment platform Pluang for instance has grown a stunning 20 times since the start of the pandemic. Gold moreover has returned 36% over the past year in Rupiah terms. Our guest on Indo Tekno, Pluang cofounder Claudia Kolona...
Tapping China Synergies: Benny Chen of BAce Capital
October 19, 2020 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBIndonesia's and China's technology ecosystems continue to interweave and overlap. BAce Capital is a venture firm whose very mission is to connect markets such as Indonesia to China's dynamic tech eco-system. Claiming Ant Financial as its anchor LP, the firm was founded by Ant and Alibaba veterans Benny Chen and "KK" Kshitij Karundia. In this instalment of Sino Indo Tekno, Benny reflects on the many benefits that the Indonesian entrepreneur can realize in working closely with his/her counterp...
Listing Domestically: Pandu Sjahrir of Indies Capital
October 13, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) Our guest this week, Pandu Sjahrir, is one of Indonesia's best known tech investors and operating executives. Actively involved in the management of four leading companies, Pandu was also recently appointed Board Member of the Indonesia Stock Exchange (or IDX). He joins us to outline the growing attractions of IPO'ing on the IDX for Indonesia's tech start-up's. Pandu describes his main mandate as "hunting Indonesian elephants": he is actively encouragi...
The SPAC Opportunity: Andy Tai of Goldman Sachs
October 05, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBWe are pleased to invite back to Indo Tekno studios Andy Tai, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, in order to explore the SPAC ("Special Purpose Acquisition Company") as a means of bringing promising Indonesian tech companies to the public markets. This marks the second episode of our "From Warung to Wall Street" podcast series. A SPAC is a company which, at the outset has no commercial operations. It is formed strictly to raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) for the purpo...
The Patient is Paramount: Jonathan Sudharta of Halodoc
September 28, 2020 21:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) FACT: Indonesia spends only 3.0% of its GDP on healthcare. The US spends 17.1%. China spends 5.2%. FACT: According to the World Health Organization, Indonesia has a mere 0.4 physicians per 1,000 people. The US has 2.6, while China has 2. Today's guest, Jonathan Sudharta, Cofounder and CEO of leading healthtech platform Halodoc, indicates that COVID has further accelerated the Indonesian government's plans to increase healthcare spend from 2.3% of GDP c...
Tenacity: Gita Sjahrir of R Fitness
September 21, 2020 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) The term “tenacity” seems to be the one attribute that today’s guest has shown at every major point in her career. Gita Sjahrir, CEO of R Fitness, describes how a debilitating case of rheumatoid arthritis helped inform her decision to become one of Jakarta’s most dynamic entrepreneurs in the health and wellness space. Tenacity also clearly came into play as Gita navigated no less than 65 rejections on her path to becoming Southeast Asia's first fitness...
Hari-Hari Awal: Leontinus A. Edison of Tokopedia
September 14, 2020 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBIn our new series “Hari-Hari Awal” (in English, “The Early Days”), we begin to explore companies that have emerged over the years as defining pillars of the Indonesian internet ecosystem. Our inaugural instalment follows the rise of Tokopedia from its very first days, through its path to becoming far and away Indonesia’s most dominant native e-commerce platform today. Tokopedia Cofounder and Vice Chairman Leontinus Alpha Edison joins us with a wealth of anecdotes from the company’s hari-ha...
Upending Aquaculture: Gibran Huzaifah of eFishery
September 02, 2020 21:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIndonesia is the world’s second largest producer of fish. Our guest Gibran Huzaifah and his company eFishery are out to leverage technology in order to disintermediate centuries of inefficient practices and waste that have crept into the industry. Indonesia has 3.3m fish farmers, many of whom barely scrape by. They are wedged between uneconomical fish feed pricing as their main input on one hand, and margins that disappear as they sell their fish into a labyrinth of downstream middlemen on ...
The Online Investment Boom: Anderson Sumarli of Ajaib
August 31, 2020 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBAnt Financial’s IPO filing last week revealed that the Chinese fintech juggernaut currently boasts more than one billion annual active users, offering a glimpse into how utterly pervasive online financial services could become in markets such as Indonesia. Indonesia’s fintech scene indeed continues to grow strongly by most measures, and this week’s Indo Tekno guest, Anderson Sumarli, CEO and Cofounder of Ajaib, is helping to lead this charge. Ajaib is an investing platform that allows Indon...
Modernizing Trucking in Indo: Tiger Fang of Kargo
August 17, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBTrucking in Indonesia is clearly ripe for disintermediation: annual logistics spend represents a massive 26% of GDP. The sector moreover is profoundly fragmented: 75% of trucking companies have 20 trucks or less, and a massive amount of the USD38b in annual trucking spend disappears into a labyrinth of middlemen. Tiger Fang, Co-founder & CEO at Kargo Technologies, joins us this week to discuss in greater detail this massive opportunity, and the attendant challenges that come with it. Having...
Profiles in Entrepreneurialism: Bram Viktor of Hangry
August 10, 2020 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBWhen listening to Bram Viktor's personal story of achievement as an entrepreneur, Winston Churchill's famous quote comes to mind: “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Bram's enthusiasm and entrepreneurial vigour are indeed infectious. He self-deprecatingly attributes his unquenchable desire to build and innovate in his early years to a mix of "stupidity and self-confidence." It is however very clear that many more factors came into play in building on...
Grab and Go: Edward Tirtanata of Kopi Kenangan
August 03, 2020 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBIndonesian grab-and-go coffee chain Kopi Kenangan has grown to more than 350 stores in less than three years; a scale that global juggernaut Starbucks for instance took 23 years to achieve. Kopi Kenangan's growth moreover has been achieved with consistent profitability at both the store and company levels. Kopi Kenangan Cofounder and CEO Edward Tirtanata joins the Indo Tekno podcast to walk us through the unique balancing act of blitz-scaling while preserving key elements such as company c...
A podcast...on podcasting! Tyo Guritno of Inspigo
July 30, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBWelcome to this week’s “podcast on Indo podcasting”. Yes, this podcast is devoted to Indonesia's podcasting industry. As we established last week with our coverage of the country's streaming video industry, online media is one of the most promising parts of Indonesia's consumer internet. This week, we continue our "Sino Indo Tekno" sub-series with partner Art Dicker of the Shanghai-based Gan Bei podcast to interview Tyo Guritno, founder of leading Indonesian podcasting platform Inspigo. Du...
Streaming Media in the Spotlight: Edy Sulistyo of GoPlay
July 20, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBIndonesia seems primed to leapfrog into the online media age. With only 0.6 movie screens per 100,000 in population (or roughly 1/20th of US levels), consumption of video-on-demand has skyrocketed this year, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has kept people at home, and offline theaters have closed their doors. This week's guest, GoPlay CEO Edy Sulistyo, believes that the premium video-on-demand platform possesses three critical elements in capturing Indonesia's elusive multibillion dol...
Indonesia's Massive InsurTech Opportunity: Cleo Randing of PasarPolis
July 13, 2020 21:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBIndonesia has one of the world's lowest insurance penetration rates at 1.79%. This situation is set to change, dramatically... Indeed, Indonesian insurance adoption seems ready to advance rapidly behind the innovations of industry leaders such as our guest this week, Cleosent Randing, and his InsurTech platform, PasarPolis. PasarPolis and its industry peers are dealing with a totally clean slate, in that Indonesia is largely new to both offline and online insurance. Cleo details how the c...
Sino Indo Tekno Special: The China relationship with Helen Wong of Qiming Ventures
July 06, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB"Sino Indo Tekno" is a new collaboration with leading China technology authority Art Dicker and his Shanghai-based Gan Bei podcast. Sino Indo Tekno will air regularly to address the growing interconnectedness of the China and Indonesia technology worlds. In our first instalment of Sino Indo Tekno, we feature Helen Wong, Partner at leading Chinese VC Qiming Ventures. Qiming is one of China's first major venture investors into Indonesia. Helen compares and contrasts Indonesia today with the e...
From Warung to Wall Street: Indo Tech IPO Prospects with Andy Tai of Goldman Sachs
June 22, 2020 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBFACT: There are 160 Chinese companies listed in the US, most of them internet companies. They represent roughly USD1.5trn in value. FACT: From Southeast Asia, we have exactly one internet company listed in the US with a market cap of USD50b. There are moreover zero US-listed Indonesian tech companies. What important milestones do Indonesia’s tech companies need to achieve in order for the IPO pipeline to begin flowing? How does one define a successful IPO? What are the most viable places ...
eSports in Indonesia: A Conversation with Ivan Yeo and Hartman Harris of EVOS eSports
June 15, 2020 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) Southeast Asia has embraced eSports with a fervour unmatched by any other region in the world. Indonesia specifically has of recent outgrown its neighbours in eSports. As eSports has gone mobile, Indonesia has leap-frogged from notoriously poor fixed line network connectivity, to the faster speeds of its mobile networks, thus making anyone with a smartphone a potential eSports spectator, or even an athlete! EVOS eSports co-founders Ivan Yeo and Hartman...
Technology and Democratizing Education: Najelaa Shihab of Sekolah.mu
June 08, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) The online learning opportunity in Indonesia is simply massive. EduTech now stands as one of the fastest growing areas of investment in the venture capital world, along with Fintech and Healthtech. The country's basic educational needs moreover are acute: Indonesia is ranked #65 out of 73 participant countries in the PISA math, science, and reading ranking. Only 24% of Indonesian students passed level 2-or-above in math (PISA). This compares to 86% in ...
"Appsolutely" App-obsessed Indonesia: A Conversation with Junde Yu of App Annie
May 28, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes - 9.76 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) Indonesia is the heaviest user of mobile apps of the world's 20 largest markets. Smartphone owners in Indonesia on average spent an astounding 5.5 hours per day on their mobile apps in the month of March, according to global mobile app analytics leader App Annie. Their peers in markets such as the US and Germany meanwhile spent a mere 2.7 hours and 2.4 hours on their phones, respectively. We in fact view the mobile app as the single most powerful drive...
IndoTekno Podcast: eCommerce and Logistics with Arne Jeroschewski of Parcel Perform
May 18, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini) We’ve chosen as our first topic of discussion the largest part of the Indonesian internet economy, e-commerce, and the mission-critical enabler to its growth, logistics. The Google Temasek Southeast Asia Internet Economy Report estimated that the region’s e-commerce market hit USD38b in Gross Merchandise Value (or GMV) in 2019. Indonesia e-commerce GMV alone likely topped USD21b last year, suggesting that it is over half of Southeast Asia’s e-commerce bu...