Hustleshare

After recently raising $1.3 million in pre-seed funding, Andreas Hufnagl of Armada Brands joins us to share how they are powering the new brands that will propel Philippine e-commerce to greater heights. Andreas will share his early hustles in consulting and how he mastered the skill of assessing businesses that can scale. He will also share how he co-founded Armada brands and how they were able t...

The premier SEO expert of the Philippines, Sean Si of SEO Hacker, joins us in this episode to share his amazing journey he's had running the top SEO company in the Philippines for over a decade. Sean will share his early hustles working for his father and how he stumbled upon SEO accidentally at a young age to create SEO Hacker. He will also share how SEO Hacker scaled over the years while being b...

Joey Marcelo, CEO of Santé International, joins us in this episode to share how he built an empire using Barley products that are now world-renowned. Joey will share the beginning of his direct selling career and how he accidentally got into direct selling and how he became a better sales person over time and rigorous practice. He will also share how they were able to bounce back from multiple fai...

Michael Dugenia of PRC Inc joins us in this episode to share his illustrious career in PR and Marketing Comms. Michael will share his early hustle in how he had to carve out a niche for himself in the ad agency world despite the discrimination he received from clients and colleagues. He will also share how he was able to get respect throughout the industry and decided to create PRC Inc to help com...

How did PDAX get Tiger Global as an investor for their Series B? Nichel Gaba of PDAX joins us again in this Soonicorn Session to share the exponential growth that PDAX underwent en route to their Series B fundraising. He will also share the big adjustments he and his team had to make to reach this milestone along with his outlook for the Metaverse in the next coming years. This episode is brought...

Dustin Onghanseng of uHoo joins us in this episode to share how they are helping improve air quality of homes and offices around the world. Dustin will share his early hustles that led him to study in Singapore as a scholar and get into consulting that taught him key skills and experiences that will come in handy in his startup life. He will also share how he founded uHoo and the multiple near dea...

How did Growsari continue to grow after raising Series B last year? ER Rollan joins us again in this episode to share their milestones in Growsari that led them to raise Series C. He will share the changes his team had to make to help them scale faster. ER will also share the new challenges he was faced with by having a rapidly growing startup and how he is currently finding a solution to solve th...

Nigel Lirio and Gabriel Lopez of MedHyve, 2 college dropouts tells us the story of they helped Filipino hospitals and thousands of patients with medical supplies procurement. They will also share how they got in early into programming and how they eventually decided to drop out together to create MedHyve to solve the problem of procuring of medical supplies in the Philippines using technology. Nig...

How did Kumu raise their Series C round? Roland Ros, Rexy Dorado, and Crystal Widjaja joins us in this episode to share the dynamics of Kumu’s meteoric rise. They will share the metrics they had to hit and the adjustments they had to make in their product to enable Kumu to grow fast. They will also share how they got Crystal onboard to further accelerate their growth along with the lessons they le...

Myla Villanueva, one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs in the Philippines with 4 exits under her belt joins us in this episode to share her illustrious career. Myla will share her humble beginnings and how she started creating her first tech companies in the early 90s and how she overcame odds despite the Philippines not being ready infrastructure-wise. She will also share how she was able...

For our very first Soonicorn Sessions episode, Steve Sy of Great Deals E-Commerce Corp tells us how they became a Soonicorn after raising Series B last year. Steve shares their key milestones and the metrics that they had to hit in the middle of the pandemic. He will also share the hardest things he needed to overcome and the most difficult decisions that he had to do before they raised Series B....

On our 3rd anniversary episode, Hsu Ken Ooi of Iterative joins us to share how they are building the YC of Southeast Asia. Hsu Ken will share his origin story being raised America and going back home to Malaysia every summer along with how he hustled while he was in school. He also shares how he struggled creating multiple startups with Brian Ma until they finally cracked the code with Decide that...

The Hustleshare Podcast turns 3 with a brand new format dropping every Thursday: Hustleshare Soonicorn Sessions. Featuring the stories behind soon-to-be Unicorns of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Checkout Founders Only on these Platforms: Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@hustlesharepodcast Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6u01gZ1nBXSHOw2oxoBQWC?si=d3062142ecd345d5 Apple Pod...

Gian dela Rama of Aiah joins us in this episode to share how Aiah was able to scale and be the leading company in conversational commerce in the Philippines. Gian will share his early hustles that included stints in FMCG and hardware companies that he co-founded before he decided to create a software development company - Innovantage. He will also share how he became part of the #StartupPH communi...

Coming off a $4.3 Million seed funding, Nel Laygo of Peddlr joins us in this episode to share their journey of teaching financial literacy to Filipino MSMEs. Nel will share his grassroots story of growing up in Catbalogan, Samar and how he hustled to have a great career in finance and tech that led him to be assigned overseas. He will also share how he bootstrapped his first startup HiBes while wo...

Yuri Marshall, CEO of Mind You, joins us in this episode to share how they were able to revolutionize the mental health services sector of the Philippines. Yuri will share his early hustles growing up in Papua New Guinea and how he did side hustles while studying in Australia that established his business acumen. He will also share his first few businesses that had varying degrees of success which...

After successfully raising $10m from a16z, Renz Chong of BreederDAO joins us in this episode to share how they want to boost the supply of Play-To-Earn games in the Metaverse. Renz will share his early hustles working for their family business and working as a consultant before joining Angkas. He will also share how he got into crypto and how he built BreederDAO to support the lack of quality NFTs...

Javi Lorenzana of Up Next joins us in this episode to share how they want to up-skill Southeast Asian professionals for the digital age. Javi will share how early he got into the startup ecosystem by being a dev and interning early in startups amassing 7 years of experience at a young age of 21. He will also share how he decided to create Up Next to help prepare professionals with new skills that...

After recently raising $900,000 to become the biggest laundromat service in Manila, Ignacio Phelan of WeClean joins us in this episode to share the story of how WeClean scaled fast. Ignacio will share how he started his hustle by being an events producer for nightclubs that forged his skills that came in handy with WeClean. He will also share why he decided to go to the Philippines and create a la...

The Head of Ideation and Incubation of 917 Ventures, Francis Simisim, joins us in this episode to talk about KodeGo. Francis will also share his startup journey starting with co-founding When In Manila and Blogapalooza and founding Social Light Ventures that he led through an acquisition. He will also share how he joined 917 Ventures and his involvement in helping founders create their startups un...

Fresh off raising $3.5 Million for their seed round; Ariane Lim, Justin Banusing, and Kevin Hoang of AcadArena to share their incredible journey to power the next generation of gamers in the Philippines. Ariane, Justin and Kevin will share their origin stories on how they supported collegiate gamers from the Philippines and the US and how they decided to team up and join forces to scale up their m...

For our season finale, we will be having the Chief Innovation Officer of RCBC Digital, Lito Villanueva aka Mr. Fintech. Lito will share his career spanning 20 years with stints in banking, telco, payments and many more across multiple countries. He will also share how he brought that experience to RCBC and began the rapid digital transformation of the bank that eventually led them to become AsiaMo...

Cristopher Sanchez, Head of Sales of Epson Philippines joins us in this episode to share the journey that Epson Philippines had to take to become the market leader of printing in the Philippines. Cris will also share his illustrious career and how he got to eventually Epson for years to become their head of sales. He will also share in depth the development that Epson did throughout the years espe...

Gabriel Benito of Nexplay Esports joins us in this episode to share how Esports and gaming have evolved in the Philippines. Gabriel will share how he developed his love for gaming that translated when he started his career in advertising. He will also share how he took the leap into entrepreneurship to start Nexplay and how he was able to convince top Esports players to work with him. Gabriel will...

Mikee Liwag and Javy Mantecon of LBC SoShop! joins us in this episode to share how the country's market leader utilized its pickup service for online sellers who can't go out to the nearest LBC branch due to quarantine restrictions. In this episode, our #TeamPogi guests discussed how LBC's rewards program allows online entrepreneurs to deliver products in far-flung areas as LBC SoShop! aims to ena...