with Jakob (@jakobrost), CEO and CO-founder of Ayoconnect, a bill payment app. He shared about his childhood, growing up in Germany and exposed to technology for the first time. Then he shared how he got the opportunity to join Lazada Indonesia, first time visiting Indonesia, and working to educate market about online commerce. Jakob also shared hi…

with Niki (@nikitsuraya), Co-founder and COO of Goers, an app where people can book events and activities around Jakarta. She shared why she was into science and wanted to be a doctor back then. Then she also shared how her dream shifted to tech consultant and her experience working abroad. Later on NIki got into her first tech experience by workin…

with Rajiv, CEO and Founder of Neurosensum and SurveySensum. He shared how and why he first moved into Indonesia. He then shared his career journey from Assistant Engineer until Director of Nielsen Indonesia and Kadence before finally building his own company, Neurosensum. Rajiv talked about why he built Neurosensum and how can the company helped o…

with Joshua (@joshuaagusta), Director of Mandiri Capital. He shared how his childhood was about music and why he didn't ended up being a musician. Then he shared how he first came to learn about tech and startups, joining Systec, one of the first VC in SEA. Later on Systec went bankrupt and Joshua talked about how did it happen and how did he feel …

with Arya (@arya.setiadharma), CEO of Prasetia Dwidharma, a telco infrastructure company who is also doing startup investments. Arya shared his teenage years studying in US, where he got exposed to technology by being one of the early user of Facebook. Then he came back to Indonesia in 2008 building Prasetia Dwidharma with his twin brother. He then…

with Peter (@petershearer), CEO and Founder of Wahyoo, a startup that provides solution for digitalization of warung. He shared how his childhood struggles shape his mindset and never give up attitude. Peter didn't attend university, he instead went to Australia to do blue-collar work for a year and a half before returning and starting various thin…

with Chong Siong, GM of New Markets at Tenderd (YC S18), a heavy equipment rental marketplace. He shared how he got into Lazada and then Rocket Internet. Rocket Internet is famous for being a copycat and Chong gave his thought about that notion. He also shared how is the culture of Rocket and what he learned before joining Ezbuy as the Country Mana…

with Natali Ardianto (@nataliardianto), Co-founder & CEO of Jovee.id & Lifepack.id, former CTO of Tiket.com. Natali shared how he got interested into technology and programming, receiving projects when in college, and almost dropped out of college. He then share how Tiket.com was born and how he was not afraid to try again after starting two previo…

with Piotr (@piotrj), Chief Growth Officer and Co-founder of Nafas, a startup to monitor the air quality in Jakarta. He will share about his childhood and how he got interested in tech and marketing. Then he shared his marketing experience in agencies such as VML Indonesia and Leo Burnett before joining Go-jek as the CMO. He shared his memorable ma…

with Richard (@richardfang), CEO and Co-founder of Nice To Meet You Studio, a design as a service company. He shared about how he got interested in design since childhood, joining Thinking Room as the only employee, where he learned about company culture and started a clothing line with fund from Nicko. After freelancing for a while, he joined Tike…

with Rama Mamuaya (twitter: @rampok, IG: @rmpk), CEO and Co-founder of Dailysocial.id, a tech media company. He shared about his childhood and how his father was the reason he got into tech. Then how he got into blogging, covering and reviewing websites and products in the blog, which later he turnt it as a full-time as Dailysocial. Rama also share…

with Aria Rajasa (@rajasa), CTO and Co-founder of Karyakarsa, a platform to support creators, and CEO and Co-founder of Tees Indonesia, a platform to create your own t-shirt design. He shared about his interest in design since childhood, dreaming of becoming a mangaka, reluctantly taking CS in university, and exploring freelance in web design. Then…

with Suwandi (@suwandi), CEO of Mekari. He shared his journey, doing consulting for years before building Sleekr, a Saas for payroll and HR service. He also shared an interesting story of how he attempted growth hack Sleekr early on, resulting in closing overseas companies as customers. Sleekr then grew bigger to the point they can m&a with Talenta…

with Ken (@kenratriiswari), CEO and Founder of Geekhunter, Indonesia's first recruitment agency for devs. Ken shared about her childhood and early life, doing all sorts of side hustles, building her first online business with her friends before finally got exposed in tech with Contenga. In Contenga she learned about headhunting and sourcing for can…

with Gibran (@gibranhuzaifah), CEO and Co-founder of eFishery. He shared how he got into all sorts of businesses in college before finally exploring fish pond. He then shared how his idea of IoT automated feeding hardware got validated, meeting Chrisna by chance, who later became the co-founder. He also shared how eFishery, as a startup working in …

with Joshua Kevin (@joshuakevin), Founder and ex-CEO of Talenta. He shared how he got into tech community in the early 2010s, how he got opportunities from Startup Lokal, East Ventures, Tech in Asia, and Kakao before finally building Talenta. He shared his Talenta journey, from first pivot, struggle as fist-time founder, educating the market, how h…

with Samir (@SamChaibi ), Principal of Insignia Ventures Partners. He shared his journey founding Docex Legal until exit, exploring careers in Middle East, China, USA, and now Southeast Asia. He also shared how he first got into VC with Strive (prev. Gree Ventures) and then starting Skala, an incubator/accelerator in Jakarta before finally moving i…

with Eileen (@eileenkamta), COO and Co-founder of Populix, a consumer insight platform company. She shared how her experience doing research for new product in Djarum led her and her co-founder, Timothy, to start Populix. She also talked about her experience as first time founder in tech-related business with no technical background and experience.…

with Anthony (@asuryaputra), Co-founder of Newman's (YC W20). He talked about his experience in consulting, VCs, and Go-jek before finally built Newman's, a Digital Health Clinic for Men company with two other Co-founders. Solving personal problem, Newman's first product is solving hair loss problem among men. He also shared how Newman's got accept…

with Abraham Viktor (@hungrybram), CEO & Co-founder of Hangry, a mix between FnB and cloud kitchen company. He talked about trying to work as Investment Banker, how that job was what he always wanted to do. Only stayed for months before building Wedlite and later pivoted to Taralite. How the pivot was affected by his mentor William Tanuwijaya (CEO …

with Aulia (@salsabeela), Co-founder and CMO of Storial.co, a marketplace for stories. She shared about her experience as a writer, how she started because of manga before being a professional writer of 30 books. As a serial entrepreneurs, she shared what motivates her to keep creating, facing adversity, and dealing with failures. She also talked a…

With Shiyan Koh (@shiyankoh), Managing Partner of Hustle Fund VC, a SF-based VC investing in a hilariously-early founders. Shiyan talked about her first tech experience, before her experience transitioning as an operator in a startup at NerdWallet back to as VC in Hustle Fund. Explaining what's Hustle Fund VC's thesis, deal flows, targets, and goal…

with Irzan Raditya (@irzanraditya), CEO and Co-founder of Kata.ai. He shared about how he got into tech since childhood, growing up passionate in music. He also talked about study in Germany, showing entrepreneurial spirit with few side projects that led to future co-founders. Started Kata, an ai company specializing in chatbot, as soon as moving b…

with Benson (@bensonputra) and Jazz (@jazzpratama), CEO and CMO of Bartega Studios. They talked about the three of them, including Nadia Daniella, knew each other and started Bartega. How none of them is from art or design background. They shared why they believe Bartega will be big and took the risk of leaving their steady jobs to start Bartega. Y…

with Daniel Shen (@dansoqq), CEO and Founder of Soqqle. He shared about how programming is the only thing he liked to learn as a kid and the only one among peers to still in tech industry. How he started in banking industry with Standard Chartered and then JP Morgan as developer and as PM, learning about management and negotiation. Joining a startu…

with Aldi Adrian (@aldiadrians), VP of Investments at MDI Ventures. He shared about his unprivileged background, his mentor, and how he started his VC journey, from Fenox Ventures to Mandiri Capital to right now at MDI Ventures. How VCs evolve to care more about unit of economics, how he evaluates startups, and how investment is all about luck. He …

with Tyo Guritno (@tyoguritno), CEO and Co-founder of Inspigo.id. He shared how he started to be interested in tech, then as marketing and finance graduate deciding to focus on design and creative in career. His journey in Silicon Valley, worked in well-known companies such as Electronic Arts, Pandora, as well as started and exited 2 companies. The…

with Gustaf Alströmer (@gustaf), Partner at Y Combinator, previously Growth at Airbnb. Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator that has funded over 2,000 companies over 29 batches since 2005. Combined valuation at over $150 billion with some of the famous ones are Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Coinbase, Instacart, from Indonesia they have Xendit, P…

with Norman Sasono (@nsasono), CTO of DANA Indonesia, previously Co-Founder and CTO of Bizzy and LoyaltiExpress. He shared how a boy from Bali with military family line from both grandpas could be interested in technology, his journey before he joined Microsoft for 7 long years. After that how he co-founded two companies with his friends, LoyaltiEx…

with Edward Chamdani (@ismawandchamdani), Managing Partner and Co-founder of Ideosource VC. He shared about his days as tennis player, going as far as attending school in USA for it, then how it led him to start a VC firm. Then his works before consultant and founders before shifting to investing. Importance of complement value with partner, strugg…

with Aryo Ariotedjo (@aryoariotedjo), founder of Wellspaces and Grupara Ventures. He shared his early life and the struggle with formal education, building relationship since school days, then his first venture in USA. Then he shared how relationship led him to start Grupara Ventures, why Wellspaces started as a free office space. How he amassed ne…

With Steven (@stevenwongsoredjo), founder and CEO of Nusantara Technology (parent company of Yukepo, Keepo, and Super). He shared how he started as a solo founder, how he manage his employees in three different cities, and what inspired him to use the name 'Nusantara'. Then he also shared got accepted into Y Combinator, what the program was like, w…

with Nick Yudha (@nickyudha), co-founder of Monstore & Antikode. He shared how he and his two friends founded Monstore, where the name came from, the collaboration with Ismaya, Marvel, and Google, his feeling when President Joko Widodo wore his tees in We The Fest. Then he shared how being cheated by dev freelancer twice triggered him to found anot…