Latest Asiapacific Podcast Episodes
The Weekly Snapshot: News from CTrip, Uber, Oyo’s Ritesh Agarwal, and more
Startup Snapshot - August 02, 2020 18:37 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCTrip is reportedly planning to delist from Nasdaq, Uber’s Asia-Pacific operations are staying headquartered in Singapore while it works things out with Hong Kong, and Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal has set up a new venture capital firm. You can hear the details on all this news and more on this w...
The Weekly Snapshot: News from Gojek, Sorabel, Ant Group, and more
Startup Snapshot - July 26, 2020 20:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGojek appointed a new group chief technology officer, Indonesian fashion ecommerce startup Sorabel is set to close down after the Covid-19 pandemic wiped out its cash, and Ant Group has started the process of doing a concurrent IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market and the Stock Excha...
The Weekly Snapshot: News from Google, SoftBank, Wavemaker, and more
Startup Snapshot - July 19, 2020 20:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJio Platforms is in the news again, bagging investments from Qualcomm and Google, Wavemaker Partners closes its third Southeast Asia fund at US$111 million, and SoftBank’s share prices are on the rise. Hear the details on all these stories and more on this week’s episode of The Weekly Snapshot...
The Weekly Snapshot: News from TikTok, Sequoia, GoGoVan, and more
Startup Snapshot - July 12, 2020 20:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingByteDance’s short-video app TikTok hogged the headlines last week with its plan to exit Hong Kong. According to the company, it’s also considering changing TikTok’s corporate structure due to increased scrutiny from India and the US over security concerns. In other news, Sequoia Capital India ...
The Weekly Snapshot: News from Luckin Coffee, Grab, Pinduoduo, and more
Startup Snapshot - July 05, 2020 20:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuckin Coffee confirmed US$300 million in fabricated revenue, ecommerce startup Leflair’s CEO was summoned by the Ho Chi Minh City police, and Pinduoduo and Grab saw some movement in their leadership teams. Hear the details on all these stories and more on this week’s episode of The Weekly Sna...
Deep Dive: The online food delivery industry’s problem with profitability
Startup Snapshot - June 30, 2020 20:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAt the end of 2019, Meituan-Dianping recorded close to US$400 million in net profits, with more than half of the company’s revenue coming from food delivery. Seeing as the online food delivery industry is notoriously a loss-making business, this came as quite a surprise. How did Meituan-Dianpi...
The Weekly Snapshot: News from Gojek, Bukalapak, Lazada, and more
Startup Snapshot - June 28, 2020 20:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere’s been a lot of movement in the startup scene. Bukalapak co-founder and president director Fajrin Rasyid has left his role to join local telecommunications firm Telkom Indonesia as its digital director. Lazada Indonesia CEO Chun Li is poised to take over as group chief executive at the e...
The Weekly Snapshot: News from Grab, One Championship, Jio Platforms, and more
Startup Snapshot - June 21, 2020 20:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLast week can be described as a rollercoaster ride, as Asia’s tech community went through several ups and downs. Grab and One Championship announced layoffs early in the week, with affected personnel numbering in the hundreds. On the flip side, Disney+ posted a bunch of job openings in Singapo...
Deep Dive: The cloud kitchen phenomenon
Startup Snapshot - June 07, 2020 20:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCloud kitchens have become increasingly prominent in the past couple of years, with players like Grab, Foodpanda, and Deliveroo setting up their own operations. The vertical is a gamechanger for the food ecosystem, with food delivery platforms emerging as the big winners because they stand to...
Deep Dive: The race to become China’s top super app
Startup Snapshot - May 24, 2020 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChinese mobile payment app Alipay recently incorporated the features of several apps from Alibaba’s ecosystem to expand its lifestyle service offerings. This move was prompted by the escalating competition with fellow super apps WeChat and Meituan-Dianping, whose recent forays into fintech sig...
Deep Dive: An industry working to ensure Singapore doesn’t go hungry
Startup Snapshot - May 10, 2020 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen Malaysia, one of Singapore’s top sources for food products, announced a nationwide lockdown in early March, Singaporeans went on panic-buying sprees, cleaning out grocery store shelves because they feared the country’s supplies would soon run out. In response to the situation, players in ...
Deep Dive: The growing influence of the Gojek mafia
Startup Snapshot - April 12, 2020 20:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIndonesian education tech startup Zenius recently announced that it would be providing free lessons on Gojek’s app, since schools have been suspended and students have to learn from home because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Interestingly, Zenius CEO Rohan Monga used to be Gojek’s chief operating ...
Deep Dive: Delving into the recent layoffs among Asian startups
Startup Snapshot - March 29, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNews of layoffs at various startups and large corporations as well as small and medium-sized enterprises have been making headlines all over the world, especially as the global economy reaches critical levels due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To shed some light on the factors driving retrenchments...
Deep Dive: The Honestbee story (so far)
Startup Snapshot - March 15, 2020 20:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSingapore-based grocery delivery startup Honestbee was a well-loved brand. Its brick-and-mortar grocery store, Habitat, was touted to have the world’s first checkout system that required minimal intervention from shoppers, as well as the first grocery collection system that was entirely reliant ...
Deep Dive: Is Jay-Z’s investment fund just another one in the sea of funds in Southeast Asia?
Startup Snapshot - March 01, 2020 20:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingArrive, an investment fund linked to American hip hop mogul Jay-Z through his entertainment label Roc Nation, has been making moves in Southeast Asia. Since 2017, Arrive has invested in five startups in Singapore and Indonesia, and aims to double its portfolio of Southeast Asian companies by the...
Deep Dive: How startups are faring in the face of an epidemic
Startup Snapshot - February 16, 2020 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRecently labelled by the World Health Organization as 2019-nCoV, the novel coronavirus has spread rapidly across China and the world. More people have contracted Covid-19 - the disease caused by this microbe - in a much shorter time than SARS, which became a global epidemic in 2003. But what i...
10-year challenge: The Tech in Asia story
Startup Snapshot - January 03, 2020 02:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn this episode of Startup Snapshot, Tech in Asia CEO Willis Wee shares the highest and lowest moments of his entrepreneurial journey, recalling how he built the startup as well as the mistakes that led to the 2018 layoffs, and how the 10-year rollercoaster journey shaped him as the company's fo...
Her first business failure sent her soul-searching abroad
Startup Snapshot - December 19, 2019 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode on Startup Snapshot, Caecilia Chu, co-founder and CEO of travel wallet app YouTrip, looks back on the "painful failure" of her first entrepreneurial venture and shares what she learned when the incident sent her soul-searching abroad.
Gary Zhexi Zhang on Nam June Paik
ArtAsiaPacific Podcast - December 15, 2019 14:12 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe visit London's Tate Modern Gallery with artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang to discuss the current Nam June Paik exhibition and technology's evolving role in art.
Achieving profitability after a cancelled IPO
Startup Snapshot - December 05, 2019 20:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingM17 Entertainment CEO Joseph Phua walks us through the trials and tribulations his startup faced when it became the first company in the entire history of the New York Stock Exchange to cancel its listing on the day it was supposed to begin trading and how the firm bounced back to become profita...
Lessons on market expansion from an international media business
Startup Snapshot - November 21, 2019 22:27 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode on Startup Snapshot, theAsianparent founder and group CEO Roshni Mahtani shares what she learned from a failed market expansion and how those lessons impact how the business operates today, as well as what her journey as a founder has taught her about working with and hiring the rig...
How bad leadership culture can ruin a business
Startup Snapshot - October 31, 2019 18:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn an exclusive interview with Startup Snapshot, Jonathan Low talks about his stint at Honestbee for the first time since leaving his post as co-founder, discussing the management missteps that led to bad leadership culture and how it played a role in the company’s recent troubles.
Pivoting in the face of an unscalable business model
Startup Snapshot - October 24, 2019 17:09 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoel Neoh, founder and CEO of Fave, shares on this episode of Startup Snapshot the challenges he faced in his early days as a student entrepreneur and how he later had to make the difficult decision to pivot a previous business when he realized it was operating at a loss.
Pio Abad's Fantasy Novel
ArtAsiaPacific Podcast - October 14, 2019 20:49 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsPio Abad reveals that the novel he's always dreamed of writing would be based on non-fictional family histories of adventure, revolution, triumph, and grief, and tells us how the fantasy of this multi-generational novel inspires his multidisciplinary practice.
Attaining and losing a billion-dollar market cap
Startup Snapshot - October 10, 2019 17:49 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn this episode of Startup Snapshot, Amrit Kumar, co-founder of blockchain platform Zilliqa, discusses the chain of events that led the company to surpass a market cap of US$1 billion, and how some missteps and market fluctuations led to a drop in its coin’s ranking.
How regulatory changes almost crushed this fintech startup
Startup Snapshot - September 27, 2019 08:08 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode on Startup Snapshot, Funding Societies co-founder Kelvin Teo talks about his relationship with his co-founder and how they overcame the odds when the business was almost wiped out by regulatory changes.
What's brewing at Tech in Asia
Startup Snapshot - September 12, 2019 16:58 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingToday, Tech in Asia is launching the second season of the Startup Snapshot podcast, featuring the roller coaster ride that founders face as they overcome the challenges associated with running a startup. But that’s not the only thing we’ve been up to. On the first episode of this new season, ...
Shezad Dawood: Leviathan
ArtAsiaPacific Podcast - August 15, 2019 09:37 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe visit Shezad Dawood's London studio to hear about his enormous multidisciplinary project "Leviathan," and try out an impressive new virtual reality piece.
A business born out of a blog
Startup Snapshot - July 12, 2019 03:10 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn this episode of Startup Snapshot, Joline Tang, founder of The Sustainability Project, shares how she got into sustainable living, her journey as a startup founder, and the challenges she faces as a “solopreneur.”
Understanding the struggles of the bike-sharing market
Startup Snapshot - July 05, 2019 03:29 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingQiq Global chief operating officer Dalston Pung shares why he thinks the company can succeed where some bike-sharing operators have failed on this episode of Startup Snapshot.
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