We came to KL. It rocked.
We descended on GoJek – was mayhem.
Now it’s time to drop in on Bangkok.
David Jou of Pomelo is confirmed.
More to come.
radical candour from a deep generalist
We came to KL. It rocked.
We descended on GoJek – was mayhem.
Now it’s time to drop in on Bangkok.
David Jou of Pomelo is confirmed.
More to come.
Will be interesting to see how it goes.
Love Memberful but have no experience with Patreon.
My deck I used at the Esquire Shophouse 2018
Always warms my heart to see Spuul still rocking.
Sometimes the smaller guys in the OTT space are often overlooked.
Spuul continues to break new ground and evolve with the space.
AWS Summit: Subin Subaiah, CEO of Spuul & Spokkz, On Their Successful Partnership with AWS:
Originally, Spuul was based on a subscription video on demand (SVOD) based, whereby subscribers would watch movies from a catalogue that Spuul had in its portfolio. However, as the service expanded to more countries, demands for linear TV watching increased in different regions of the world and this was not longer possible to accomplish in house. Therefore, a partnership with AWS was needed.
Totally agree with Jon on this. Let’s wait to see what they ship but doesn’t make one feel any better about Google.
Asia Tech Review: August 6 2018 | Revue:
As I said on Twitter, Google has done a lot more than most to help increase internet adoption in India, Southeast Asia and other markets through initiatives such as free WiFi, data-friendly apps, and even ‘lite’ versions of Android. Arguably this all serves the purpose of widening the market it can monetize, but the impact is positive for all. However, its seemingly financially-motivated return to China – and 180-degree flip on opposing censorship – threatens to remove any positive sentiment about its business and progress in Asia.
Good to see this is back.
One of the best resources in SEA region for tech/VC job hunting.
This week we have selected 19 positions from Venture Capital (Openspace Ventures) to Startups (Transcelestial, CardUp, Homage, 90 Seconds, ViSenze, Tradegecko) to Centaurs (Mixpanel, Appier, Carousell) to Unicorns (Stripe, Grab) to MNCs (Zendesk, Rakuten, Google, Facebook).
Great read.
This one gets me – I know this feeling:
Undoubtedly. It’s an amazing company — we should’ve owned more. But for us, it was an incredibly important investment.
Index Ventures is quietly encroaching into the top tier of American investors. Here are five questions with them.
— Read on www.recode.net/2018/8/5/17624034/index-ventures-mike-volpi-q-and-a-silicon-valley
This will be fun.
The policy will be the latest in a series of proposals that seek to spur data localization in India, as the government finalizes an overarching data protection law. Local data storage requirements for digital payments and e-commerce sectors are also being planned.
The authorities want the information stored locally so that they can more easily get access to it when conducting investigations.