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Sarah Chen Global
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, to building empires in new markets; all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm. Join venture capitalist & strategist, Sarah Chen as she asks the hard questions, and learn through the triumphs, failures and hard lessons of the crème de la crème — so you too, can make #BillionDollarMoves in venture, in business & in life. https://bdm.sarah-chen.com/
I’m so excited about this week’s guest! If you’ve been following our work at Beyond The Billion; there’s no better snapshot of why we do the work we do than this episode; where Elodie Dupuy represents the kind of fund manager we are so bullish on. Starting as a receptionist at Insight Venture Partners, she is today betting on herself. Elodie founded Full In Partners, a software-focused $200M growth equity fund based in New York City, getting into deals like Canva, and Vinted. How she got there? You’d have to tune in.
TIMESTAMPS 03:33 - Gymnast "Pushing through the pain' grounding Elodie's journey 08:21 - Iconiq chapter, but not really? 09:03 - 'I didn't know I want to be a CEO, until I couldn't be' 09:30 - 'Why don't I have my own fund? That's rude' 15:29 - Lagging indicators in fund management? 20:41 - Trust vs ownership in equity 25:56 - Usercentrics & Cookiebot - THE deal 36:28 - 'When the tide goes out, it's easy to see who doesn't have a bathing suit on' 40:38 - Will the growth stage sustain? Distributions vs valuations? 48:17 - 'B2B SAAS will not go anywhere'
FOLLOW FULL IN PARTNERS: https://fullinpartners.com/ Full In Partners is a premier NYC-based growth equity firm founded in 2019. The firm is focused on backing high-velocity, high-efficiency software and internet businesses while building better outcomes through proactive operational and strategic support. -- On Billion Dollar Moves, we travel across the globe in search of the unexpected leader. Every week, it is our job to deconstruct the Billion Dollar Moves of unicorn founders & funders; many of them, underestimated long before they became iconic. Many of them, unexpected leaders, just like you. This show is about unfiltered conversations about success, failure, fear, and courage in the pursuit of the next big thing in tech and venture. -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast website Watch on Youtube Join the community
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"But how can women actually be good operators?" This is a special episode from my work archives—in reflecting on my work this summer, I realized that this conversation in particular needed more air for the important angles raised by some real heavyweights in our industry. Featuring GV Ravishankar, MD at Sequoia India or now known as Peak XV; Sunitha from LetsVenture, India’s largest tech platform for early-stage startup investing and Nacitta from Sayurbox, Indonesia based distribution platform of fresh produce backed by Indonesian e-commerce Tokopedia From removing the pitch process to changing mindsets in angel investingm to challenging our own assumptions, this is your crash course on why the gender venture funding gap exists; and the Billion Dollar Moves these leaders are championing to change the status quo. You’re tuning into the Bridging the Funding Gap in SEA Panel at DSA’s 2021 PEVC Conference.
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“Give them some purpose, unlimited vacation time, free food, and beanbags.” 🙄 Yet why are workers still unhappy and disengaged? 😳 40% of workers say they're likely to leave their current job in the next 3-6 months In this Billion Dollar Bite I explore a question I get asked often: "What exactly does the next generation workforce want from me?" EPISODES REFERENCED:
Silvia Wiesner, former MD at Unilever on "really listening"
Niels Christiansen, Group CEO at Lego and Stanley Bergman, CEO at Henry Schein on "the non-political leader"
Cathy Gao, Partner at Sapphire Partners on "building culture from day one"
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I’ve been enjoying the Women's FIFA World Cup, and I’m so thrilled to see the conversation on gender equity that has arisen alongside the excitement of the sport. As we continue to be in awe of the performance of so many of the teams, I was inspired to bring this week’s Billion Dollar Bite to a candid conversation with Coach Jen Welter who tackled her football career with tenacity and an unprecedented track record of pioneering firsts. What does it mean to be the first and the only? How do you turn being seen as the 'token' woman to being taken seriously as a team player? From building on her career in women’s football, which included 2 Gold medals with Team USA, to breaking through the biggest boys club of all, the NFL, as the first female coach in the league, I thought her Billion Dollar Moves deserved a listen this week.
Original full episode Follow Dr. Jen Welter
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From building emerging tech in IBM to working with Jeff Bezos and Andy Jessy, being a part of scaling Amazon from a $12 Billion to $80 Billion company; tech pioneer and trailblazer, CNN’s Top 10 Most Powerful Women in Tech Sandy Carter is now betting big on Web3: as COO of Unstoppable Domains, a platform for user-owned digital identity that hit the unicorn status last year led with a round led by Pantera Capital. Today we break some exciting news by Unstoppable Domains launching, discuss the viability of Web 3.0 and how it is creating new business opportunities and reshaping the way we think about commerce, entertainment, and social interaction.
ABOUT SANDY CARTER: Sandy Carter is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains, a platform for user-owned digital identity. As COO, she is responsible for driving growth and developing business strategies in pursuit of the company’s mission to provide user-owned identity for the world. She also drives partnerships and integrations for Web3 and the Metaverse. Prior to Unstoppable, Sandy was a VP at AWS where she created and grew businesses in emerging tech, leveraging AI, blockchain, and AR/VR. Before that, she was a General Manager at IBM and a Silicon Valley start-up founder.
Sandy is a leading voice in technology, social media, Web3 and the metaverse who has been recognized as a Top 10 Most Powerful Woman in Tech by CNN and as a top AI influencer per Onalytica. Sandy Carter is a Board Member at Altair, an AI company, Chairman of the Board for the non-profit Girls in Tech, a past member of the Diversity Committee at the World Economic Forum, the founder of Unstoppable Women of Web3 and a founding member of Blockchain Friends Forever (BFF). She has won numerous awards including 2023 Crunchbase Influential Women in Sales List, 2023 CRN Channel Chief, Top 100 Global Thought Leader by Awards Magazine, Top 150 Business Transformational Leaders, a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Top 115 Most Inspirational Women of Web3/Metaverse, 100 Women Davos, Two Lovies Awards for Best Metaverse HQ, Top 14 Edge Leader, Federal 100 Award Winner, Top 100 Women of the Future, and PwC Game Changer. She is a member of Fortune Most Powerful Women. She is fluent in eight programming languages and is the author of five books, which won the Platinum MarCom Award and the Silver Marketing Sherpa award.
About Unstoppable:
Launched in 2018, Unstoppable Domains is a Web3 domain name provider and digital identity platform working to onboard the world onto Web3. Unstoppable Domains offers Web3 domains minted on the blockchain that give people full ownership and control of their digital identity, with no renewal fees. With Unstoppable Domains, people can replace lengthy alphanumeric crypto wallet addresses with a human-readable name and log into and transact with more than 720 apps, wallets, exchanges and marketplaces. The company was named by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers in 2022. Media Contact: press@unstoppabledomains.com
FOLLOW SARAH: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarahchenglobal Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahchenglobal -- Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious next generation leader; featuring the top global funders & founders. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life. -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar-episodes Watch on Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobal Join the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondollarmoves
Long before AI became a buzzword, Vu Van recognized its transformative potential. Combining her deep understanding of language learning with her AI expertise, Vu Van founded ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant) in 2015. ELSA, an AI-powered learning app, provides users with an interactive and personalized approach to improving English pronunciation, 50 million users later, over $27 million dollars raised, with investors including Gradient Ventures, Google’s dedicated AI fund, this is a conversation not to be missed.
ABOUT VU VAN: Vu Van is Co-founder & CEO of Silicon Valley-based ELSA, the world’s best and smartest English pronunciation app. She worked with leading speech scientists, machine learning scientists, and linguists from around the world to create ELSA. Powered by the company’s proprietary AI and speech recognition technology, ELSA scores a learners' speech to pinpoint individual syllable and phoneme level mistakes with real time feedback. Prior to founding ELSA, Vu lived and worked in Vietnam, Singapore, Denmark where she experienced the challenges of an English language learner abroad. She served as an Engagement Manager at Booz & Co, one of the top four global management consulting firms. Vu earned an MBA and a Masters in Education from Stanford University and is originally from Vietnam.
FOLLOW SARAH: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarahchenglobal Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahchenglobal -- Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious next generation leader; featuring the top global funders & founders. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life. -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar-episodes Watch on Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobal Join the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondollarmoves
While the IPO window feels closed for many; what we’re still seeing are interesting mergers, acquisitions and strategic exits: many of which create the scenario of leaders at the helm of new teams. And so, for this week’s Billion Dollar Bite; I’m bringing a question I’m off late being asked a lot: how do leaders make maximum impact in the first 90 days?
A concept; from one of my fav book of all time— by Michael Watkins where as Watkins brilliantly illustrates the first 90 days present a unique window for leaders to establish their vision, build influence and actually set the foundation to make things happen. It is a period that demands precision, clarity, and swift action, political savvy.
I couldn’t think of a better episode than that of Tiwa York to highlight: a visionary leader who has made waves in the e-commerce industry like no other. Tiwa was handpicked by industry giants, Naspers and Tencent, to revolutionize their e-commerce portfolio in Thailand. And boy, did he deliver in the first 100 days and more.
Full episode: On Apple: https://apple.co/3sXNtkz On Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3UpAbcV On Youtube: https://youtu.be/fBmTNT4G-20
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Ollen Douglass is a name that many have come to recognize in the venture industry, in particular for building the first venture fund for the Motley Fool; a popular news and media platform providing investing insights and financial advice to millions of people for over 25 years. But his story takes an unexpected twist as he walks away from a $250 million outfit he helped start. His abrupt departure left industry insiders hungry for answers. And today, he's here to reveal in his own words what happened and why; and importantly we’ll chat about his mission to challenge the status quo as a Black man in this industry.
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A head start doesn't always ... well, help you get ahead.
With examples from sports, technology and economics, journalist David Epstein shares how specializing in a particular skill too early in life may undermine your long-term development -- and explains the benefits of a "sampling period" where you try new things and focus on building a range of skills. Learn how this broader, counterintuitive mindset (and more forgiving timeline) could lead to a more fulfilling life, personally and professionally: even in our world of venture and business.
Special thanks to Cortado Ventures for setting this up in the beautiful First National Center in Oklahoma City: https://cortado.ventures/
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David Epstein is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and of the New York Times best seller The Sports Gene, both of which have been translated in more than 30 languages. (To his surprise, the latter was purchased not only by his sister but also by President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.)
He was previously the host of Slate‘s popular “How To!” podcast, and a science and investigative reporter at ProPublica. Prior to that, he was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he co-authored the story that revealed Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez had used steroids. His writing has been honored by an array of organizations, from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and has been included in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. His story “Following the Trail of Broken Hearts,” on sudden cardiac death in athletes, was chosen as one of the top 100 stories of the last 100 years by Columbia Journalism alumni.
FOLLOW SARAH: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarahchenglobal Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahchenglobal -- Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious next generation leader; featuring the top GLOBAL funders & founders. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we deconstruct the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life. -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar... Watch on Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobal Join the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondol...
This week I am so pumped to be speaking with Momei Qu, Managing Director of PSP Growth, where she leads PSP’s venture capital and growth equity initiative, working closely with the esteemed Penny Pritzker, former United States Sec of Commerce and American billionaire businesswoman with family investments in the Hyatt Hotels and Marmon Group. From Momei’s leadership lessons working with a trailblazer to building a robust venture and growth practice to the future of B2B SAAS despite valuation slashes we’ve seen, we cover it all.
ABOUT MOMEI: Momei Qu is a Managing Director at PSP Growth, and leads PSP’s venture capital and growth equity initiatives. She is responsible for strategy development, new deal sourcing, and portfolio company oversight. Prior to joining PSP Growth in 2018, she was a Vice President at Baird Capital where she invested in healthcare and technology companies. Prior to joining Baird, she was at Independence Equity (IE), a technology focused venture capital firm. Before IE, she worked as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co. Qu earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She currently serves on the Board of The Goldie Initiative, an organization dedicated to elevating the careers of high potential women in real estate, and on the Board of CRETI (Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation). In her spare time, Momei enjoys traveling with her husband and 2 kids, running by the lake, and finding deals at wine auctions.
FOLLOW SARAH: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarahchenglobal Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahchenglobal -- Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious next generation leader; featuring the top global funders & founders. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life. -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar-episodes Watch on Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobal Join the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondollarmoves
Tiwa York was brought in by the likes of Naspers and Tencent to clean up their e-commerce portfolio in Thailand; which resulted in the birth of Kaidee, Thailand`s largest C2C marketplace, serving over 30M users who list close to 10M products across 250+ categories from automotive to property for sales every year. Tune in to this fascinating conversation where we dive into why Tiwa tanked the title "CEO" for "Head Coach" to the challenges of bridging cultures in leading high-performing teams.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.
👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN: - Rethinking bridging cultures from East to West - Incentivizing startup teams: how to make that work - The intricacies of doing business in a fragmented Southeast Asia: and why that matters
About Tiwa York: Tiwa York is an active angel investor and was the Founder and Head Coach of Kaidee (a.k.a CEO), Thailand’s largest C2C (Customer to Customer) marketplace. Kaidee, started in 2011 by Tiwa, has now become a C2C online marketplace serving over 30M users who list close to 10M products across 250+ categories from automotive to property for sales every year. Kaidee was recently acquired by Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG), a Dubai-based bespoke online classified solutions provider, as part of its strategy to expand its footprint. Tiwa has been recognized for his leadership and efforts to build the team and culture at Kaidee. He currently is a board member at Seven Peaks Software, Seekster, Skootar, and Hubba. Prior to his current role, he worked in digital advertising with leadership roles in Admax Network and Omnicom Media Group.
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And we are back with a bang! This week we dive deep into discussion on the ethics of AI, finding inspiration and executing on that founder's vision while finding purpose along the way, even post-exit, with the global pioneer of Emotional AI, Rana el Kaliouby!
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.
👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN: - Why ownership of your own career path is key - Managing career transitions & how to dissociate your identity/worth with your career - Rethink again: how do you know you've made the right decision? -- About Rana A pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), Dr. Rana el Kaliouby is Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and formerly, Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva, an MIT spinoff and category-defining company. Rana realized a successful exit for Affectiva in June 2021 when the company was acquired by Smart Eye, where she teams with Martin Krantz, Smart Eye’s CEO to scale the company to a global AI powerhouse. Rana is the bestselling author of the newly released book Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. She raised over $50 million in venture and strategic funding for Affectiva, where the company’s technology is used by automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to improve road safety and the in-cabin experience, in addition to 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies. Prior to founding Affectiva, Rana was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab. A TED speaker, Rana has been recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list, Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech, Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, and named one of the three Global Business pioneers by Bloomberg in 2017. Rana is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and a Young Presidents' Organization member. Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a PhD from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT.
In today's Billion Dollar Moves Breakdown, we bust some myths on the startup and venture capital landscape with i2i Ventures General Partners, Misbah Naqvi and Kalsoom Lakhani.
👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Valuations merited or inflated by foreign players?
- The triple threat of startups rising in the region: Edtech, Fintech, Ecommerce
- The secret sauce of Pakistan's recent rise
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This week we dive deep (pun intended) with Paralympics Gold Medalist Susie Rodgers on winning, mental health, reinventing yourself and so much more.
Video credits: Channel4, 1000Londoners, Women's Sport Trust, British Swimming and Dorset Orthopaedic
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why ownership of your career path matters
- Managing career transitions & how to dissociate your identity/worth with your career
- Managing mental health & the pressures of constant "high-performance"
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
03:12 - How Susie found sport with the intention of connection
05:50 - A practical upbringing to be told "you just have to adapt"
08:07 - Finding her 'Ikigai'
13:54 - Mental health: Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, the expectation to win and perform
17:58 - Career and Identity
20:16 - Taking stock of winning
27:59 - Billion Dollar Questions
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About Susie: (https://www.susannahrodgers.com/)
Susie wears prosthetic limbs on her left side and orthotics for her right foot. She has lived a life of disability since birth. She understands the complexity of inclusion, but is a strong believer in ability and capability, having used her determination to succeed in every aspect of her life. Susie believes that no one should be left behind; in education, work and in government and public life, as well as in society in general. Susie is an advocate and speaker on inclusion and diversity and is a role model and mentor to other people with disabilities, showing what is possible, through openly speaking about her own experiences as a disabled woman.
Susie is also a former professional athlete who competed at two Paralympic Games winning a total of 30 international medals including 17 Gold. She became Paralympic Champion in the 50m Butterfly at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. At the London 2012 Paralympic Games, her first, she came away with three Bronze medals, British and European records. She went on to become multiple European and World Champion across her disciplines including 50m, 100m and 400m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly and 100m Backstroke. It wasn't until eight years after the start of her journey as a professional athlete, that she finally won individual Gold in the women's S7 classification 50m Butterfly at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. She set a European record of 35.07 and her shocked expression and reaction became a media highlight of the Games. Susie conducted her entire career as an athlete whilst still maintaining her professional career with a part-time role at the British Council as well as sitting on various Boards as a Director.
"My biggest fear? Not achieving the potential of what I think this business can do, and achieving this vision I see"
This week, we dive deep with John Brisco, CEO and Co-Founder of Coherent, Hong-Kong grown insurtech startup on a mission to to build next-in-class technology platforms and data intelligence engines to help insurers and their partners transform and grow. From sales enablement to product development, Coherent is helping the insurers move away from legacy backend challenges.
Building on their success in closing their series A round of funding in late 2020, Coherent is now expanding their business from Asia to the world.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to transition from C-suite corporate executive to an entrepreneur: is it worth it?
- What it takes to disrupt problems in an age-old industry?
- Taking an Asian-grown product global
- Hiring and scaling great teams from day one
- Choosing the right investor for the long-run
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On Coherent:
https://www.coherent.global/
More on John Brisco: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbrisco/)
John is the leader and co-founder of Coherent. Every day, John works to inspire the Coherent team to create a brighter, more inclusive future for the insurance industry.
Having started his career in AXA and EY, John has accumulated a wealth of global experience in the insurance sector, most recently as COO and CIO at Manulife Asia. In his career to date, he has led teams in more than 45 countries across 5 continents.
With less than 10% of Asia’s population having any form of insurance, John is committed to helping the insurance industry become more inclusive. He believes that Coherent’s technology-enabled and data-intelligent products will help our customers to drastically improve the level of insurance penetration across Asia and other parts of the world.
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"The hardest lesson for me as a leader? I've chosen to be in this position. I chose to build this business. So it starts with me and it ends with me"
The family office was initially created to look after the wealth of ultra high net worth families. But today, the modern-day family office does far more than that and is in fact, acting a whole lot more like a venture investor. Today we talk to Field Pickering, COO, General Counsel and Head of Venture Investing at Vulpes, a family office built off the wealth of Stephen Diggle, who founded Artradis Fund Management. Artradis was an Asian long volatility biased multi strategy alternative asset manager, and at its helm grew assets under management from US$4 million to US$4.7 billion at its peak in 2008.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to ask and advocate for what you want in your career
- The evolution of family offices, particularly in Southeast Asia
- How Vulpes is taking a hunting, uninhibited approach to venture and reaping the rewards
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro, what's on tap for this week
02:48 - Why you need to advocate for your own career - Field's journey from an unwilling lawyer turned venture investor
07:13 - Artradis making $3Bn from the Asian Financial Crisis, and how the family office began
09:55 - The growth of family offices in Asia Pacific
12:54 - Dealflow, building pipelines
13:06 - An unfettered approach to venture investing: too early, too late?
15:39 - Vulpes Special Opportunities Fund
20:06 - Portfolio construction and strategies
30:50 - Billion Dollar Questions
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"When times are hard, hold on to your vision. Remember why you started in the first place."
In a never-before like interview, we dive deep into the business of drones with the Malaysian power couple Kamarul A Muhamed and Azita Azizan who founded Aerodyne group, which is set to be the global leading provider of drone-based enterprise solutions, with over $30M raised, presence in over 35 countries, and over 350,000 assets inspected.
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm. Hosted by venture capitalist & strategist @SarahChenGlobal, expect unfiltered stories from the crème de la crème, so you too, can make #BillionDollarMoves🤓
👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why picking your co-founder is the most important choice you can make, the secret in choosing people to work with
- What it takes to build a global footprint, can you expand too fast?
- The future of drones and aerial robotics, should you be afraid?
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:29 - Why this idea, why now?
06:16 - Acquiring new customers, and proving the business case
10:52 - Taking the leap - how the power couple came to be
14:08 - Validating outside the country?
23:36 - Building for global growth - what strategy worked?
26:08 - Choosing the right partners and leaning into your intuition
30:52 - Rising expectations of the industry, aerial robotics and more
36:54 - Opportunity out of a crisis
39:12 - Billion Dollar Questions
On Aerodyne:
Aerodyne Group (https://aerodyne.group) is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) drone-based enterprise solutions provider, and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology for large-scale data operations, analytics, and process optimization. Aerodyne is ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights (DII) in its ‘Drone Service Provider Ranking 2020’; was named Frost & Sullivan’s ‘Asia Pacific UAV Services Company of 2019’; and is a recipient of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia’s ‘Industry Excellence Gold Award 2019’. The company’s founder and Group CEO, Kamarul A Muhamed, is 'EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020'.
"If not now, then when? I had no job, nowhere to stay but I had to try. Even if I failed, I would have the peace of mind that at least I tried. I would have always wondered, what if?"
From the rise of Impossible Foods to McDonalds announcing their McPlant menu, plant-based food has undeniably taken the market by storm. Beyond the mainstreaming of veganism, fast-forward to 2021, a global crisis and global lockdowns drove consumers to reassess what they eat and their impact on the planet.
Riding this wave is Clara Foods (www.clarafoods.com), a Silicon Valley venture-backed company making animal protein without the animals. Led by Arturo Elizondo, Clara Foods is disrupting food technology, developing performance protein products and making the world's first animal free egg white protein. Using advanced fermentation to brew protein that is cleaner, greener and kinder to our environment today, this week, we take a personal deep dive with the man behind the vision of eggs without chickens.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to execute on a vision, as a non-technical founder: including dealing with imposter syndrome
- Career transitions and deciding to take that leap
- How eggs could be made without a chicken! (P.s. a $200B opportunity)
- Plant-based foods, alternative proteins and the scale of food technology today
- Building for the long run in biotech and leveraging the first mover advantage
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:14 - Intro, what's on tap for this week
02:04 -Arturo finding his purpose, and taking a one-way ticket to San Francisco, obsessing about eggs
05:26 - Personal revelation to action and building a startup
11:05 - Non-technical founder on the hunt for a team
15:38 - Wait, but how are you making chicken-less eggs again?
23:58 - Breaking news! The world's first animal-free protein?
27:26 - The landscape for alternative proteins
30:30 - Building moats!
32:09 - Where to expand to first?
37:57 - Abundance mentality and the future of alternative proteins
49:07 - Billion Dollar Questions!
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More on Arturo: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturoe/)
Arturo is the founder and CEO of biotech food company, Clara Foods, based in Silicon Valley that has raised over $50M in funding and makes real animal protein without the use of a single animal – starting with the world's first chickenless egg proteins.
Prior to founding Clara in 2014, Arturo served under Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Credit Suisse. He has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30, the 2019 Person of the Year by the National Hispanic Institute, and one of 10 Latinos who inspire the United States by BBC World News. Arturo hails from Laredo, Texas, and grew up living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. He
Indonesia’s startups have been making headlines in the last few years, including most recently the news that online mall Bukalapak is set to raise $1.5 billion in the country’s largest-ever initial public offering - setting the stage for a wave of tech listings, with fellow unicorns GoTo and Traveloka to follow suit. Home to the region’s largest population, it is no surprise, Indonesia is in it’s primetime for entrepreneurs. This week, we begin to scratch the surface of the Indonesian startup storyline with veteran digital entrepreneur and evangelist Shinta Dhanuwardoyo.
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top Asia-US funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- The IPO scene in Indonesia - what's going on? Bukalapak, raksasa GoTo and more
- Primetime Indonesia: the opportunity for digitization
- The secret sauce of building unicorns in Indonesia
- Indonesia’s rising youth spending power
- Building in Indonesia: challenges and opportunities
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro, what's on tap this week
04:17 - Architect turned entrepreneur, an Indonesian girl's curiosity
07:29 - Teaching herself to code and build websites
09:45 - Bubu's initial go to market
17:27 - Indonesia's startup growth story - how do we think about Indonesia?
21:29 - Domestic/dual listings, are the fundamentals there - Bukalapak, Gojek + Tokopedia
25:26 - Secret sauce of Indonesian unicorns?
29:56 - 17,000 islands - what about underserved markets?
35:03 - Billion Dollar Questions with Shinta!
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More about Shinta (@shintabubu):
Shinta is a tech industry veteran and trailblazer. Since the inception of her first company Bubu.com in 1996, the award-winning entrepreneur has impacted Indonesia's digital landscape in countless ways.
Her first company, Bubu.com, started as a web development company that now houses multiple ventures targeting the Indonesian youth— from the hottest gaming competition to a collaboration agency bridging brands.
At the end of December 2019, she launched a new venture called Startupindonesia.co, which is an online platform to help connect all the startup ecosystems in Indonesia. The online platform is looking to democratize network and knowledge for Indonesia's tech startup ecosystem, especially those with a strong socio-economic impact. It is developed as Indonesia's online startup directory and online education center for tech-entrepreneurship. Shinta is currently the Head of the permanent committee for Digital Business, e-Commerce and Startups Development at Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Indonesia (KADIN) and she is also on the Board of Trustees of The Nature of Conservancy (TNC Indonesia).
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In today's Billion Dollar Moves Breakdown, we bust some myths on the emerging markets and venture capital with THE emerging markets analyst, Mikal Khoso, VC at Wavemaker Partners, a cross border venture capital firm dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore and has raised over $580M across multiple funds.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- GoTo, Grab, Shopee - who will win in this multi-billion e-commerce showdown?
- Primetime Emerging Markets: the opportunity for digitization, leapfrogging
- The secret sauce of emerging markets
- Byjus, the best kept secret in edtech?
- SPACs: Real deal or a cover for the lack of fundamentals
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro: what's on tap this week?
01:25 - Why emerging markets, why now?
03:34 - Exploding population
05:39 - Leapfrogging
08:35 - Political uncertainty? What's the risk premium here?
10:55 - Golden era of startups - analyst top picks
23:00 - GoTo: marriage of convenience?
29:16 - The exit story for emerging markets
More about Mikal (@mikalkhoso):
Mikal is based in LA with Wavemaker, focused on sourcing new deals, collaborating with partners on diligence and further iterating on the investment process and tech stack. He writes a popular weekly newsletter Emergent on the fastest-growing businesses in emerging markets. (reademergent.com)
Prior to joining Wavemaker Mikal was a partner at First Round’s Dorm Room Fund, a student-led venture firm that invests exclusively in student-founded companies. In his time at Dorm Room Fund he led two investments that have collectively raised $45 million in follow on funding. Prior to that he was an Associate at Underscore VC in 2017 where he led two investments as well that collectively have raised $40 million in funding.
Prior to that he worked at the New Ventures Team at Northeastern University, a corporate innovation team tasked with building Edtech companies for the university. Mikal graduated with a B.S. in Economics and Philosophy from Northeastern University.
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"You can imagine the guilt - here I was building my startup when my actual baby was not coping well in school; with a learning disability, and recent epilepsy incident."
We love rooting for the underdog- but what does it really take to rise despite the odds, as THE underdog? Rosaline Koo founded CXA Group from her living room in 2013 after a storied career with multinationals, with ambitions to transform health benefits for employees. Tune in to her story from risking all her family savings to build her startup; to scaling to over a million users, raising over $50M from the likes of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's B Capital Group, EDBI, Openspace Ventures and more.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How an underdog emerged to challenge global insurance players
- The opportunity for digitization in insurtech
- How to actually expand into new markets
- The sacrifice of a founder- the toll on personal relationships
- Building for the long run
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro, what's on tap for this week
03:24 - Rosaline's life "a series of accidents", from a father that came to the US on a Dragon Boat
12:34 - "I think I needed to help execute" - startup journey begins in Malaysia
13:11 - A mother's guilt
15:29 - Coming to a hard decision
18:50 - Taking all of the family's savings to start CXA
22:52 - Taking the leap: being bold enough to solve an industry problem
29:28 - Acquisition strategy: going head to head as a no-name brand
50:18 - Billion Dollar Questions!
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More on Rosaline:
Rosaline is the founder and CEO of CXA group, Asia’s only integrated flex and wellness portal (https://www.cxagroup.com/)
Rosaline invested $5M of her savings and borrowed another $5M to build CXA after 5 years trying to convince her previous firm to invest in Asia. Now CXA has over a million users across 20 countries in Asia and is being white-labelled as the SME bancassurance SAAS platform. CXA has been awarded Insurtech of the Year, Top CEO, Global Innovations in Healthcare, Asian Human Capital Leadership Award, Asian Insurance Innovations and HR Vendor of the Year for Corp Wellness and Comp & Benefits.
Rosaline supervised Procter & Gamble factory lines in Iowa and then worked at Bankers Trust on Wall Street. She launched two dot-com start-ups before moving to ACE insurance. Rosaline also grew Mercer Marsh Benefits' 14 APAC countries 800% over 8 years. She graduated from UCLA Cybernetics and Columbia Business School.
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This week, we dive deep with Rajive Keshup in Singapore, Investment Director at Cathay Innovation, an early and growth stage venture capital firm with $1.5B AUM across San Francisco, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore, and closely affiliated with Cathay Capital Private Equity, a global private equity firm with $3B in AUM.
From the lens of a management consultant turned operator turned funder, Rajive talks about what it takes to be an entrepreneur’s first phone call in great and not-so-great times, and the real landscape of growth stage companies in SEA.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- If you're not learning, you better be earning
- The current state of play of venture in Asia: are we drinking our own kool-aid in Asia? Inflated valuations, the hype of SPACs
- How to actually expand into new markets
- The arbitrage opportunity of Asia-US
- Building for the long run
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More on Rajive:
Rajive is an Investment Director at Cathay Innovation, based out of the Singapore office. (https://cathayinnovation.com/)
Prior to joining Cathay, Rajive played instrumental roles in scaling a number of Southeast Asian startups. Before moving to Singapore, Rajive was a Managing Director at PwC Strategy (formerly Booz & Co.) in New York City where he led the TMT sector for the firm’s Private Equity practice. Rajive started his career at AT&T doing corporate strategy & development in Dallas, Texas. He is also a former-founder having built, scaled and successfully exited a US-based startup in the pet services space. Rajive earned an MBA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a Bachelor of Science from Bentley University in Waltham, MA.
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“If I was being invited into a room, it was for a reason. So it's about being confident in that I had something to offer. I wasn't going to sit at the periphery of the table and not speak” — Alethia Jackson
This week, we make a trip to The Hill with America’s Top Lobbyist, Alethia Jackson making some #BillionDollarMoves!
As VP of Federal Relations & Head of Advocacy for Walgreens, Alethia is expanding patient access to pharmacy services while advancing the role of pharmacy in the healthcare system. As Chair of the Vaccine Equity Taskforce, she sees first hand, Corporate America’s healthcare battle especially during this time we are all living in.
We unpack what it means to lead with your voice, the complex healthcare landscape and how to build partnerships that matter.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to be heard, and help others feel heard
- What it takes to make it in Corporate America
- The healthcare battle of our generation
- The quadruple aim of healthcare & how senior executives are thinking about it
- How digitization is affecting the future of healthcare
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:11 - What's on tab for this week: the healthcare battle of our generation,
02:29 - Alethia's DRIVE and where it came from
04:55 - The disparity of care
07:09 - How to find your voice, and come back from being perceived not in a way you'd like
11:14 - On power in Washington DC
15:11 - The quadruple aim of healthcare, the challenges
19:57 - Politics vs government; the politicization of healthcare?
24:08 - The retailization of healthcare
26:53 - Guest CAMEO! Nur Afifah & Renwei Chung - fake news, reimagining healthcare's front door
39:04 - BILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS
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Enterprise technology companies attracted $30 billion in funding, outpacing their consumer-tech peers (by a third) for the first time in five years. This trend reflects a deeper evolution at play, at the intersection of software development, adoption of cloud technology, and data analysis—and as many investors have said we’re still at the early stages of this massive sea change.
But how did we arrive at this inflection point and what next?
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From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
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👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to actually manage diversity & not falling into the culture 'fit' trap
- Why conviction is core to succeeding as a new partner
- The tale of two cities in healthcare
- What makes a billion dollar founder?
- Ethics in investing - where do you draw the line?
More on Cathy:
As a daughter of a software engineer and a small business owner, Cathy has been steeped in technology and entrepreneurship from an early age and today Cathy focuses on B2B SaaS, digital healthcare, and data businesses as partner at Sapphire Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies of consequence. For nearly two decades, Sapphire has been investing capital, resources and expertise in innovative startups and technology-focused venture funds around the world with more than $6.8B in AUM across Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport, and with team members in Austin, London, Palo Alto and San Francisco. (https://sapphireventures.com/)
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"Tolerate failure but don't tolerate incompetence. Till this day, I regret how I let a company go bankrupt— I've learned from that"
From microbiome manipulation, to genomic sequencing, biotechnology promises an unprecedented future.
But what does it really take to build a biotech company that will last?
This week, we chat with, Brian Conn, serial biotech CFO, who has raised over $300M, completed 20 M&A deals and is currently CFO of genomic sequencing company, Quantapore, co-founder of synthetic biology company, Levadura and advisor to VC firm, General Inception.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How a non-technical founder can play a big role in building biotech
- How an unfocused strategy, is a strategy
- The evolution of biotech - have we leapfrogged?
- Navigating competition
- Key fundraising tips - should you care about dilution?
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro: What's on tab for this week: biotech, role of startup CFO, fundraising
02:49 - Brian's lucky start in biotech
07:47 - The lousy accountant turned CFO
11:49 - The long road of biotech
14:45 - Biotech vs non-biotech
19:34 - Dilution, funding "and then we're done" - hard lessons
24:10 - Evolution of biotech, have we leapfrogged?
33:01 - Dealing with competition
36:20 - Special! Cameo from Dr. Sarah Richardson, CEO, MicroByre
50:20 - Billion Dollar Questions
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From leveraging the $500Bn impact investing opportunity to building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm, and most importantly the willingness to PLAY IT BIG, as athletes in our own fields.
This week, we took a different turn in examining high-performance and went deep with Dr.Jen, the first female NFL Coach on what's not playing big right now in the world of sport.
Dr. Jen Welter tackled her football career with tenacity and an unprecedented track record of pioneering firsts. Building on her career in women’s football, that included 2 Gold medals with Team USA, 4 World Championships and 8 All-Star selections, Dr. Jen busted into the men’s game, as the first female running back signed to a men’s professional team. She broke through the biggest boys club of all, the NFL, as the first female coach in the league and the Madden NFL 20 video game.
Now that's some #BillionDollarMoves we all want in on.
👊🏻 FIVE THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to defy crazy odds, even when you're told you can't
- How to not let fear define you
- How to turn being seen as the 'token' woman to being taken seriously as a team player
- Getting to the big table and bringing your voice
- The disparity between men and women's sport and what we must do
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
05:14 - Being Told She Wasn't Going To Be Good Enough
07:33 - Shifting Mindset Through Negativity
11:00 - Dr. Jen's Epiphany
13:29 - Getting The Call From Texas Revolution
18:16 - Are Companies Doing The Right Thing in Diversity Drives?
20:41 - Developing Allies
23:13 - Being The First & Only
23:58 - NCAA, Sedona Prince, The Disparity In Sports
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Dive into our post-show Clubhouse discussion Apr 16th 2021 with fellow VCs in the region, where we went deep on the rise of startups in Southeast Asia, fresh of Grab's announcement that week valuing it at close to $40Bn, Bukalapak netting $234M and more!
Special cameo by:
Rajive Keshup, Investments Director, Cathay Innovation
Gail Wong, Managing Partner, Her Capital
Carlo Delantar, Head of Circular Economy, Gobi Partners
Venture capitalist, Michael Lints of Singapore-based Golden Gate Ventures shares some #BillionDollarMoves we all will want in on.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How Southeast Asia's startup scene came to be
- How venture capitalists are viewing Southeast Asia right now
- The unique challenges of building & investing in Southeast Asia
- The impact post-pandemic on markets, and how startups are innovating
- How the racial reckoning is affecting others around the globe
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
More on Michael:
**Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need in order to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor, and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. He joined the firm in 2013 and is currently leading growth venture efforts, which include LP fundraising and portfolio management for Golden Gate Venture's investments at Series B and beyond.
Outside of work, sport is an essential part of Michael’s life. He is a former member of the Dutch karate team and the former ambassador for Treknology (Trek bikes distributor in Singapore). Michael actively participates in Ironman 70.3 races and marathons. He is also passionate about social justice and uses sport as a vehicle to raise awareness for important issues such as civil rights, economic opportunity, and education. Besides sport, Michael is an active writer and writes articles regarding life, balance, and venture capital on michaellints.com**.
From our live show Apr 16th 2021, we went deep on the rise of startups in Southeast Asia, fresh of Grab's announcement that week valuing it at close to $40Bn, Bukalapak netting $234M and more!
Michael shares some #BillionDollarMoves we all will want in on.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How Southeast Asia's startup scene came to be
- How venture capitalists are viewing Southeast Asia right now
- The unique challenges of building & investing in Southeast Asia
- The impact post-pandemic on markets, and how startups are innovating
- How the racial reckoning is affecting others around the globe
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
01:29 - Michael's personal journey through resilience
09:11 - Southeast Asia's hot week: Grab's SPAC, Bukalapak's raise & more
14:20 - The challenge of building & investing in Emerging Asia
18:59 - 700+ startup exits in Southeast Asia?
21:07 - Post-Pandemic view on markets
24:15 - Michael's view on the moment in time, and the racial reckoning
27:50 - Michael's advice to founders
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm. This week, we went deep on the new reality that is remote work with none other than Brian Elliiott, former GM of Platform at Slack, and now Head of Future Forum — reimagining work.
From building for inclusivity to sending the right message from the top -
he shares some #BillionDollarMoves we all will want in on. Do you agree with his tips? We'd love to hear from you!
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why 83% of knowledge workers DO NOT WANT to return to the office
- How executive leaders can lead effectively remotely in 2021 and beyond
- The unique challenges of work from home for different groups and what leaders can do
- The impact post-pandemic for the future of work
- How to rethink productivity metrics to bring out the best in your distributed teams
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:36 - Brian's career mantra
04:26 - The Lift & Shift - 83% of knowledge workers do not want to return to the office
08:00 - Social isolation affecting different groups differently
11:42 - Leaders rethinking culture, tackling different challenges including systemic racism
14:12 - Global work and distributed teams
16:50 - The future of work
21:36 - Power dynamics, trust and empathy in the C-suite
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“Even if you’re drowning, give it one last shot”
Ride-hailing giant Gojek and marketplace Tokopedia, Indonesia’s two largest startups, said a couple of days ago that they’ve merged their businesses to form GoTo Group, on track for a $35-$40B IPO end year.
This sets more fuel to the fire of SuperApps rising in Southeast Asia: a trend that is actually moving from East to West. But is it all that it's cut out to be?
Muneeb Maayr, Founder of Bykea joins us this week on #BillionDollarMoves to unpack the news & share his game plan for Bykea, Pakistan's hyper-local marketplace powered by a network of Motorcycles (p.s, there are 17 million in Pakistan!)
From the rise of SuperApps to the unique challenges of the two-wheeler opportunity in a country like Pakistan, to the fear of a meaningless life, Muneeb Maayr and I cover it all!
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Will everything eventually be a Superapp & why?
- What a hyper-local strategy actually means
- The immense competition of global brands & how that impacts a local startup
- The payments revolution - cash on delivery in the East?
- How Bykea is thinking about the future of digitization and building trust
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Over a decade ago, JPMorgan and the Rockefeller Foundation, published a report claiming that impact investment was an emerging asset class that would reach between $400 billion and $1 trillion in assets under management by 2020. Many thought this was an ambitious prediction but fast forward, we now see how those doubts were misplaced with markets hitting $715 billion in assets under management in 2020.
Against the backdrop of the reckoning of 2020, our lens on impact dollars has become tremendously important. But is there far too much sensationalization of impact? How do we stay grounded on metrics that really matter?
We talked with Karen Wawrzaszek to unpack this, in March 2021 on our very first episode recorded!
From growing up in poverty to advising some of the wealthiest families, endowments & foundations; having held roles including MD of Rockefeller Capital Management to now Chair of the Meyer Foundation and BNY Mellon Regional President- we learn from her #BillionDollarMoves and challenge how impact investing has gone wrong — and what more needs to be done.
In this episode, you will learn:
- What it means to have lived in poverty, and how you can channel personal scars into purpose
- Impact washing and this moment in time
- The triple threat of inequality
- How do we DESIGN & measure impact – is doing no harm, good enough?
- Key investment trends arising from the rise of millennials and environmental, social, governance (ESG)
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“Never build a startup without a technical founder”
“Never go to a VC without a well thought out pitch deck”
“Never hire people from Craigslist”
From breaking all these rules and more, this week's guest, serial entrepreneur and now investor, Jack Smith, somehow turned a terrible idea into a $780M+ exit. This snippet reveals Jack in his rare raw form being brutally honest with the audience on Clubhouse. @_jacksmith has co-founded multiple startups: Vungle, Coin, Shyp and advised many others. We talk everything from his startup outgrowing him to his lack of focus getting him to the right place & right time.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
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This week we went deep on the growing pains of a startup, from PR nightmares to co-founder breakups, the challenge of shifting from a scarcity to growth mindset, and so much more with Jack Smith, serial entrepreneur & investor. @_jacksmith has co-founded multiple startups: Vungle, Coin, Shyp and advised many others. We talk everything from his startup outgrowing him to his lack of focus getting him to the right place & right time.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders, and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How Jack's curiosity from a tender age carried him through as an entrepreneur
- The value of an incubator - should you join one?
- What it takes to get to product-market fit, and then scale
- What it means to outgrow your startup, and what you can do
- The harsh reality of a startup's PR nightmare
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:29 - Jack's early start in entrepreneurship
05:03 - Mediaroots evolution into Vungle
08:36 - Hacking screen record & how that led to San Francisco
10:49 - Should I join an incubator? Jack's learning from AngelPad
16:31 - The crappy engineer, launching to the next few stages
21:33 - What metrics mattered, that affirmed the Vungle vision?
24:42 - Jack's reflection on how the startup outgrew him
28:06 - Micromanaging to enabling others
30:50 - Handling a PR nightmare, and standing by his co-founder
32:40 - Jack's reflection on "making it" with the BIG exit
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This week, we went deep on the Global Entrepreneurial Revolution shaping our future with renowned American investor & entrepreneur, Christopher Schroeder.
From the dominance of big tech, to the digital divide to startups rising in the Middle East - we cover it all with Chris.
Chris is the co-founder of Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital (VC) fund focused on the next billion digital consumers across global emerging markets and is also a Network Partner for Village Global, an early VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Blakely, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman et al. Chris started in politics with the George W Bush (Senior) presidential campaign before becoming the CEO of the Washington Post/ Newsweek interactive. He then co-founded Health Central which was backed by the likes of Sequoia, Polaris Ventures and the Carlyle Group and was acquired by Remedy Health in 2012. In 2013, Chris published the first book on the Middle East & North Africa’s entrepreneurship scene called: Startup Rising — The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East — with a forward by renowned investor Marc Andreessen.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders, and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- What it takes to shift from being an intrapreneur to entrepreneur
- How entrepreneurship has become a global lingua franca
- Startups thriving across the world and yet a growing digital divide
- The challenge of big tech and increasing monopoly, can markets self-correct?
- Landscape of innovation in different regions: the rise of superapps
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Catch part of the show on YouTube: https://youtube.com/sarahchenglobal
Tag us @SarahChenGlobal @CMSchroed
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:49 - Chris' personal chapters as founder to funder & actualizing multiple visions
04:49 - Are entrepreneurs born or made?
06:16 - Shifting from intrapreneur to entrepreneur
12:06 - The lens of a venture capitalist and the lingua franca of entrepreneurship
17:06 - The Venn diagram between impact and profit closing in on each other
18:39 - The role of government and entrepreneurship, big tech
25:33 - Copycat models or real innovation?
27:50 - Chris' interest in Middle East and the startup revolution in the region
31:33 - Chris' advice for founders
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[BONUS] Includes the post-show discussion on Clubhouse this week where we went deep on the Global Entrepreneurial Revolution shaping our future with renowned American investor & entrepreneur, Christopher Schroeder. From the dominance of big tech, to the digital divide to startups rising in the Middle East - we cover it all.
Chris is the co-founder of Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital (VC) fund focused on the next billion digital consumers across global emerging markets and is also a Network Partner for Village Global, an early VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Blakely, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman et al. Chris started in politics with the George W Bush (Senior) presidential campaign before becoming the CEO of the Washington Post/ Newsweek interactive. He then co-founded Health Central which was backed by the likes of Sequoia, Polaris Ventures and the Carlyle Group and was acquired by Remedy Health in 2012. In 2013, Chris published the first book on the Middle East & North Africa’s entrepreneurship scene called: Startup Rising — The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East — with a forward by renowned investor Marc Andreessen.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders, and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- What it takes to shift from being an intrapreneur to entrepreneur
- How entrepreneurship has become a global lingua franca
- Startups thriving across the world and yet a growing digital divide
- The challenge of big tech and increasing monopoly, can markets self-correct?
- Landscape of innovation in different regions: the rise of superapps
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:49 - Chris' personal chapters as founder to funder & actualizing multiple visions
04:49 - Are entrepreneurs born or made?
06:16 - Shifting from intrapreneur to entrepreneur
12:06 - The lens of a venture capitalist and the lingua franca of entrepreneurship
17:06 - The Venn diagram between impact and profit closing in on each other
18:39 - The role of government and entrepreneurship, big tech
25:33 - Copycat models or real innovation?
27:50 - Chris' interest in Middle East and the startup revolution in the region
31:33 - Chris' advice for founders
34:34 - Post show discussion with VCs+wider audience
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Catch part of the show on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobal
On Christopher Schroeder
Tag us @SarahChenGlobal @CMSchroed
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"If you are waiting for perfection, you've waited too long"
From Sequoia Capital to now leading Asia's next unicorn, Ankiti Bose is making some #BillionDollarMoves!
At 23, Ankiti co-founded Zilingo in 2015 with the vision of bridging the technology gap within the fashion and lifestyle supply chain to help small merchants and traders go digital. Under her leadership, Zilingo has raised over $300 million, scaled to over 8 countries, with over 10,000 merchants and 7 million active users.
This week we unpack what it takes to scale in Asia, and the business of fashion.
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia funders, founders and execs.
From building a unicorn to IPO, and scaling a VC firm - all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to bring an idea you're inspired by to conviction
- Thinking about a pivot? Making that big decision and what it takes
- What metrics matter at a stage of hypergrowth
- The digital uptake & uprising across markets
- The cost of fast fashion & what we must all do for real sustainability in a world of an inferno of desire
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - What's on tab for this week: fast fashion, digitizing fashion
02:58 - Intro- from an idea to building an empire
04:45 - From inspiration to conviction: testing the market
07:15 - The big pivot?
13:47 - What metrics matter in hypergrowth?
18:12 - ESG & fast fashion
24:55 - The inferno of desire & the problems of consumerism, big tech
32:27 - Global patterns, the future of e-commerce
36:20 - From Southeast Asia to the world?
43:08 - Special! Cameo from the audience
53:26 - BILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS
More on Zilingo: https://zilingo.com/
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs.
From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, to building empires in new markets; all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm.
Join venture capitalist & strategist, Sarah Chen as she asks the hard questions, and learn through the triumphs, failures and hard lessons of the crème de la crème, so you too, can make #billiondollarmoves in venture, in business & in life.
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