Crazy Smart Asia

Gen. T’s podcast Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. We’ll be back in the new year with Season Three, but in the interim we have a special one-off conversation we wanted to share with you. Gen. T has been collaborating with Tod’s this year, specifically the brand’s No_Code line, a new hybrid footwear concept for the visionaries shaping our future, created by Kore...

Gen. T’s podcast Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. One in four people will struggle with depression and other mental health issues at some point in their lives. For entrepreneurs, that number doubles to one in two. As we approach the third year of the pandemic, with the added stress, uncertainty and loss we’ve all felt still bubbling beneath the surface, now mo...

Gen. T’s podcast Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. In 2020, serial entrepreneur Danny Yeung was hitting his stride with his startup Prenetics, seeing success with its consumer-facing genetic testing brand, Circle DNA. And then Covid hit. Realising he had the labs, the talent and the tenacity to help, Danny quickly pivoted the business. To date, Prenetics has co...

Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. When was the last time you needed quick access to expertise to help you move forward? If you’re running a business, maybe the question should be when was the last time today? Whether you’re running an SME or a global multinational, all leaders need tailored business intelligence to help them chart the right course. In today’s h...

Gen. T’s podcast Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. Twenty years ago, David Yeung became a vegetarian. He was mocked; his family asked him why. He had no idea it would change his life forever. In 2012, he founded Green Monday, a social venture and advocacy organisation, to tackle the looming issues around climate change, food insecurity and public health. Even h...

Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. This week, Gen. T’s Tamara Lamunière is in the interviewer’s chair for the episode, talking with entrepreneur, philanthropist and Nepal’s only billionaire, Binod Chaudhary. Binod is the chairman of CG Corp Global, a multinational conglomerate that comprises over 160 companies—with interests in everything from education to hospi...

Gen. T’s podcast Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors—and not many successful entrepreneurs have a more unconventional story than this week’s guest. Jaeson Ma is a musician, entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of 88 Rising, a music label, talent management and media company that focuses on bridging East and West through culture, technology and en...

Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. This week’s guest is Ankiti Bose, co-founder of e-commerce startup Zilingo. A B2B fashion platform, Zilingo provides tech-enabled supply chain solutions to small merchants across Asia, handling an annual sales volume exceeding US$1bn. During the conversation, Ankiti is straight-shooting and refreshingly honest. Not one to shy a...

Crazy Smart Asia explores the unexpected stories of Asia’s disruptors. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the first guest of our second season, might not be from the region, but his global influence is undeniable. Wikipedia is the fourth most-visited site in the world. Its billions of pageviews a month leave the likes of Amazon and Twitter in its dust, making it indisputably one of the most influentia...

A few years ago, Joseph Phua was looking for a girlfriend. After discovering that Asia’s dating apps were nowhere as advanced as those in the US, he decided to make his own. The app, Paktor, quickly became Southeast Asia’s most popular, with more than 20 million users across eight countries today.  Over the next few years, Joseph’s startup transitioned to become a social entertainment company thro...

Depending on your point of view, big data and AI will either save the world or be the end of us.  Stephanie Sy’s data science consultancy, Thinking Machines, builds machine learning models for organisations including the World Bank and Unicef, using data to tackle the biggest issues facing the planet today. But while Stephanie’s company demonstrates how AI can be harnessed to make the world a bett...

There’s no consensus on exactly how many Asian jobs technology will make redundant over the next decade, but there is one thing almost all experts can agree on—our antiquated education systems are failing to prepare our children.  Natalie Chan’s startup Own Academy is working to fix that problem. Her programmes for high school students help prepare children for the realities of the new economy. No...

In just a few years, Lucy Liu and her co-founders went from café owners to the founders of a fintech giant with the potential to disrupt the global financial system.  But Lucy says she’s always been the unconventional one, eschewing stereotypes and prejudices and only focusing on the work, growing her startup to unicorn status by the age of 28.  The idea behind her company Airwallex was simple eno...

Social activist Noor Mastura says community is the key to humanity—that the power to change the world is within us all.  What’s most surprising about the Singaporean is that unshakable optimism. Noor overcame a tumultuous upbringing and grew up determined to do what she could to ensure that no one suffers the same fate. That’s Noor’s entire ethos: “You can’t change the world, but you can change on...

What were you doing at the age of 12? Youth activist Melati Wijsen was establishing a grassroots movement that successfully lobbied the world’s second biggest plastic polluter to ban single-use plastic bags.  Today, Bye Bye Plastic Bags is a globe-spanning movement with thousands of young members, and Melati has set her sights on a new, more ambitious target.  She talks to Gen. T editor Lee Willia...

Cindy Gallop wants you to talk about sex. More specifically, how hardcore pornography is destroying our ability to have a healthy sexual relationship.  The goal of her user-generated sex tape sharing platform, Make Love Not Porn, is to spark a social sexual revolution. Put another way: social sex.  Cindy talks to Liz Bacelar, host of the Innovators podcast, about #MeToo, fixing the system from the...

Sukki Singapora is Asia's most in-demand burlesque performer. The star of Netflix reality show Singapore Social is also a fierce advocate for women's issues who wields her public persona with purpose.  She uses her artform as a tool for female empowerment, flipping its narrative as an act of titillation for the male gaze.  In this eye-opening first episode, Sukki talks to Gen. T editor L...

Hear highlights from Generation T’s new podcast, Crazy Smart Asia.  Gen. T's Tamara Lamunière introduces some of the topics we’ll cover and disruptive young leaders we’ll be speaking to in the first season’s eight episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Generation T is launching a new podcast, Crazy Smart Asia.  The show features Asia’s biggest disruptors, innovators, and entrepreneurs, and the unexpected stories behind the movements they built. Gen. T's Tamara Lamunière and Lee Williamson explain more.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.