Project Alpha :: Jakarta

Last chance to get into the event tomorrow in Jakarta.

Cool speakers.

Great venue.

Awesome program!

Project Alpha:

Jakarta 9 AUGUST AT GO-JEK HQ The next stop of the Project Alpha roadshow is hosted with Indonesia’s first unicorn startup GO-JEK. GO-JEK and GO-LIFE speakers will be participating in the event, alongside rising stars Bizzy and Modalku. Sign up to join us from 1-4PM at

GO-LEARN Auditorium, GO-JEK HQ Pasaraya Blok M, Building B, 6th Floor Jl Iskandarsyah II No. 2

AWS Summit: Subin Subaiah, CEO of Spuul & Spokkz, On Their Successful Partnership with AWS

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.

Asia Tech Review: August 6 2018 | Revue

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.

Why It’s Time for Les Moonves to Go — You Can’t Charm Your Way out of Sexual Misconduct

Good to see this – seems everyone was so quiet in the LA area. CBS is totally blowing it by not at least putting him on leave till they actually fire him.

I just returned from a week’s vacation in the mountains where I had almost no Internet access but was aware that Ronan Farrow had published a damning sexual misconduct article about Les Moonves, the…
— Read on bothsidesofthetable.com/why-its-time-for-les-moonves-to-go-db7a50417acf

💼 – Get a Job (SEA region)

Good to see this is back.

One of the best resources in SEA region for tech/VC job hunting.

💼 – Get a Job:

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).

One investing firm is behind a string of this year’s big money-making moments in Silicon Valley – Recode

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

Social media

Like everyone else I am mostly disillusioned with social media these days. I don’t have Instagram or Facebook apps on my phone. I logged myself out of Facebook on my laptop and I only have it logged in on my phone with a mobile browser – which isn’t a great user experience and mostly keeps me off of it.

I love twitter but I feel like I am using it less.

I basically feel like my home is this blog and it’s so easy to share stuff that I find myself just sharing here. Will see if that works or not.

I also like connecting with folks and find chat working okay with that – my telegram group is here :: https://t.me/SeedPlus