BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines & Malaysia Startups
Business & Economics Podcasts
Be inspired by the best leaders of Southeast Asia tech. Jeremy Au is a VC, serial entrepreneur & Harvard MBA interviewing brave founders, investors & rising stars. Build the future, learn from the past & stay human in between. No B.S on success. Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.jeremyau.com.
New episodes every Monday & Thursday. Looking for more guests from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines & Singapore. Dad, hiking & tea.
Be inspired by the best leaders of Southeast Asia tech. Jeremy Au is a VC, serial entrepreneur & Harvard MBA interviewing brave founders, investors & rising stars. Build the future, learn from the past & stay human in between. No B.S on success. Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.jeremyau.com.
New episodes every Monday & Thursday. Looking for more guests from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines & Singapore. Dad, hiking & tea.
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Be inspired by the best leaders of Southeast Asia tech. Jeremy Au is a VC, serial entrepreneur & Harvard MBA interviewing brave founders, investors & rising stars. Build the future, learn from the past & stay human in between. No B.S on success. Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.jeremyau.com. New episodes every Monday & Thursday. Looking for more guests from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines & Singapore. Dad, hiking & tea.
Language:
English
Website:
https://pod.co/bravedynamics
Episodes
Anan Saminathen: Startup Pivot, CRM Bootstrapping & Malaysia Ecosystem
9/25/2022
A digital transformation evangelist that loves to build platforms that would enrich people's lives and enhance corporate efficiency. He helped organizations large and small in several countries with their digital transformation. Received numerous awards most notably the prestigious 100 Most Influential Young Entrepreneur Award. Currently, the CEO of Nexible Solutions, a technology company based in Malaysia that helps companies automate their sales and marketing via a cloud leads management...
Duration:00:21:57
Thibault Couperie Eiffel: Cofounder Departure Taboos, Lazada & China Inspiration & Influencer Marketing
9/21/2022
Thibault is the CEO and cofounder of Capssion. Capssion is an all-in-one influencer marketing platform for e-commerce brands in Southeast Asia. Leveraging 4 years of experience spent in the e-commerce industry at Lazada as Head of Operations to bridge social media and digital commerce across borders in Southeast Asia.
In his spare time, he takes black and white street photographs. A huge cinema addict, he also loves to binge movies on weekends. Having lived in 12 different countries, he...
Duration:00:32:31
Proud Limpongpan: Career Zigzags, Crypto & Blockchain Learnings & Bust Cycle Layoffs
9/18/2022
Proud is Chief Marketing Officer of Zipmex. As a trained economist with both strategy and operational experience, Proud brings deep expertise in tech strategy and marketing to make finance fun. She has worked with private equity firms and multimillion dollar companies across nine countries, as well as invested in and built companies from scratch. She grew her latest manufacturing company by 16x in revenue within 3 years. Prior to Harvard Business School, she was a consultant at the Boston...
Duration:00:36:40
Christophe Forsinetti: Cambodia Generational Change, Regional Venture Philanthropy & Family Promises
9/14/2022
Christophe is the investment director of LEAP201, a venture philanthropy foundation based in Singapore which focuses on improving the lives of vulnerable households in South East Asia in a sustainable manner. By providing early financial support to impact projects which do not yet meet the requirements of the traditional lenders and investors, LEAP201 fills up a critical missing gap in the South East Asian SMEs ecosystem while impacting hundreds of thousands of lives.
From setting up...
Duration:00:26:54
Celebrating BRAVE Technology Leaders & Building a Diverse Ecosystem with Alvin Tan, Nurul Hussain and Jeremy Au
9/11/2022
Mr. Alvin Tan was elected as a Member of Parliament in July 2020, and was shortly appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Minister of State for the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and the Ministry of Trade & Industry. He assumed these appointments on 1 Sep 2020. Mr. Tan has worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Before joining the government as Minister of State, he served as LinkedIn’s Head of Public Policy & Economics for the Asia Pacific, where he and his...
Duration:00:18:28
Celebrating BRAVE Technology Leaders & Building a Diverse Ecosystem with Alvin Tan, Nurul Hussain and Jeremy Au
9/11/2022
Mr. Alvin Tan was elected as a Member of Parliament in July 2020, and was shortly appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Minister of State for the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and the Ministry of Trade & Industry. He assumed these appointments on 1 Sep 2020. Mr. Tan has worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Before joining the government as Minister of State, he served as LinkedIn’s Head of Public Policy & Economics for the Asia Pacific, where he and his...
Duration:00:18:28
Celebrating BRAVE Technology Leaders & Building a Diverse Ecosystem with Alvin Tan, Nurul Hussain and Jeremy Au
9/11/2022
Mr. Alvin Tan was elected as a Member of Parliament in July 2020, and was shortly appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Minister of State for the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and the Ministry of Trade & Industry. He assumed these appointments on 1 Sep 2020. Mr. Tan has worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Before joining the government as Minister of State, he served as LinkedIn’s Head of Public Policy & Economics for the Asia Pacific, where he and his...
Duration:00:18:44
Diversity, Inclusion & Building a Better Future with Nurul Hussain & Jeremy Au
9/7/2022
Nurul Jihadah Hussain is the Founder of The Codette Project, which has been operating since 2015. The Codette Project is a non-profit ground-up initiative with a mission to improve access and opportunities for minority and Muslim women in technology. The Codette Project runs classes, workshops, panels, networking sessions and social events regularly, including Singapore’s only women’s hackathon. Nurul wants to create better communities and opportunities, and diversify what success means in...
Duration:00:32:11
Tanya Rolfe: Female Capital Gap, Syndicate vs. Fund vs. Education & Fortune Favors The Brave
9/4/2022
Tanya’s 15-year legal career at some of the world’s largest law firms has honed her ability to influence and collaborate with people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, Tanya spent 7 years in Real Estate legal teams before moving into legal team management. Tanya spent 8 years in Corporate M&A at both Simmons & Simmons and Norton Rose Fulbright in London.
Tanya founded the Ladies Investment Club in Singapore and grew a team of 40 female investors which enabled female investors to...
Duration:00:39:03
Founder Mission, Values and Gritty Realities with Sandhya Sriram & John Tan
8/31/2022
Dr. Sandhya Sriram, PhD is the CEO and co-founder of Shiok Meats, a cultivated meat and seafood company in Singapore. Their mission is to bring delicious, clean and healthy seafood and meats by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats like shrimp, crab and lobster to your table. They have been featured in media including The Economist, Forbes, World Economic Forum and Channel NewsAsia. Their investors include Y Combinator, Big Idea Ventures,...
Duration:00:45:45
Southeast Asia VC Outlook Over The Next Decade with Koh Shiyan, Goh Yiping & Mohan Belani
8/28/2022
Koh Shiyan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Hustle Fund, a venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed software startups in the U.S., Canada and Southeast Asia. Prior to that, she was VP Business Operations and Corporate Development at NerdWallet, a fintech startup that helps users with a range of financial decisions through content, community and tools.
Yiping Goh is Partner at McKinsey & Company and the former partner at Quest Ventures, a top venture capital fund in Asia. Prior...
Duration:00:55:49
Melissa Ng: Depression vs. Healing, Mental Health Founder & Surviving Leukaemia
8/24/2022
Melissa Ng is the CEO of Bravely, a mental health startup that supercharges therapy by making data actionable and learning easy-peasy.
Before that, she was the founder of a fully remote product design agency Melewi that worked with clients like Visa, Samsung and McDonalds (She's helped make the McDelivery app available in over 40 countries). She's also been featured on the front page of The Straits Times, as well as on Forbes, Channel News Asia, Les Echos and more.
Most recently, she's...
Duration:00:51:24
Michael Milne: Tech Recruiter Misconceptions, Silicon Valley vs. Singapore Decentralization & Parent Founder Risk
8/23/2022
Michael Milne is Co-Founder of Kaishi Partners, a recruitment firm for the startup ecosystem in South-East Asia that he launched alongside Ben Poh 5 years ago.
He started his career in 2007 working in BD for a tech startup in London that was acquired by DHI, before moving to Hong Kong in 2009. In Hong Kong he started his recruitment career focused on hiring for PE funds investing into China, before transferring to Singapore in 2012. In 2015 he hired his first talent within VC, and with...
Duration:00:37:57
Panel: Founder Mission, Values & Gritty Realities
8/21/2022
The BRAVE 10: The Singapore Edition anthology showcases the top 10 journeys of Singapore's technology leaders. We aim to inspire the next generation of leaders to tackle our region's challenges. Profits from the book sales are donated to The Codette Project, which helps minority women break into tech and improve the diversity of our startup ecosystem. Get a limited hardcover copy here at www.jeremyau.com/book
Dr. Sandhya Sriram, PhD Sriram is the CEO and co-founder of Shiok Meats, a...
Duration:00:47:51
Michael Milne: Tech Recruiter Misconceptions, Silicon Valley vs. Singapore Decentralization & Parent Founder Risk
8/21/2022
Michael Milne is Co-Founder of Kaishi Partners, a recruitment firm for the startup ecosystem in South-East Asia that he launched alongside Ben Poh 5 years ago.
He started his career in 2007 working in BD for a tech startup in London that was acquired by DHI, before moving to Hong Kong in 2009. In Hong Kong he started his recruitment career focused on hiring for PE funds investing into China, before transferring to Singapore in 2012. In 2015 he hired his first talent within VC, and with...
Duration:00:37:25
Ling Yah: Podcaster Learnings, This Is My Why & Lawyer Reflections
8/17/2022
Former intellectual property litigator turned in-house counsel for an international conglomerate in the areas of telco, utilities, construction, hospitality, land & development, NGOs and more. Host and producer of the So This Is My Why podcast, that features inspiring people about how they found their why and turned them into reality.
Past guests include Olympians, Michelin-starred chefs, FAANG executive, retired four star general & Chief of Army, Hollywood actresses, US late night TV...
Duration:00:37:25
BRAVE 10: The Singapore Edition Launch Panel featuring Goh Yiping, Mohan Belani and Koh Shiyan discussing Southeast Asia's VC Outlook over the Next Decade
8/15/2022
The BRAVE 10: The Singapore Edition anthology showcases the top 10 journeys of Singapore's technology leaders. We aim to inspire the next generation of leaders to tackle our region's challenges. Profits from the book sales are donated to The Codette Project, which helps minority women break into tech and improve the diversity of our startup ecosystem. Get a limited hardcover copy here at www.jeremyau.com/book
Yiping Goh is Partner at McKinsey & Company and the former partner at Quest...
Duration:00:56:06
Anuvrat Rao: Launching YouTube APAC, US vs. SE Asia Envy & Almost Losing A Leg
8/14/2022
An ex-Google pioneer of 9 years, with an expertise in launching new products and building ecosystems from the ground up (0 to 1 to 10 to 100). These include launching Google Assistant, Progressive Web Apps, Accelerated Mobile Pages and Firebase in APAC from zero to 100s of partners and millions of users. Prior to this, he launched Youtube in APAC.
His last role at Google was to Head Google Search for the APAC region. Prior to this Anuvrat was a Strategy consultant with OC&C Strategy...
Duration:00:42:39
Kim Tan: Improv Highs, Performer vs. Founder vs. Enabler Realities & Society Spaces
8/11/2022
Kim is cofounder and Artistic Director of The Improv Company and has taught and performed improvised theatre for ten years. He has studied improv in Chicago, London and Oxford under some of the most venerated instructors still alive, and as a former board member of the Applied Improvisation Network, he is engaged in keeping up with current trends of improv training, facilitation and performance.
As Artistic Director of the Company, he ensures the quality of the Company’s instruction and...
Duration:00:50:56
Hannah Yang: Founder to PM, Grief Timebox & Transition Reflections
8/10/2022
Hannah is the author of Founder to PM and the CEO and Founder of TheShareWay. Founder to PM is the first detailed guide on how ex-founders can land their first product management jobs. TheShareWay is a directory of companies that donate food and raffle items to nonprofits. Previously, she worked in Product at Oscar Health and started her career as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/hannah-yang
Duration:00:33:32