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Manny Ayala of Endeavor Philippines joins us in our 150th episode to discuss how endeavor supports high-impact entrepreneurs gain access to networks and capital. Manny will share his early hustles in pioneering media companies in the Philippines and in Asia. He will also share how he started investing with Hatchd and how he ended up leading Endeavor in the Philippines. Manny will also share what i...

After raising $12.5 Million in 30 seconds and becoming the first Filipino startup that a16z invested in, Beryl Chavez Li and Gabby Dizon of Yield Guild Games joins us in this episode to share with us the incredibly bright future of Play-To-Earn. Beryl and Gabby will share both of their startup journeys that revolved around investment, building games and building startups. They will also share why...

Fresh from their stint in Y Combinator and after successfully raising $1.6M, Don Pansacola and Aldrich Tan of NextPay joins us in this episode. Don and Aldrich will be sharing their humble beginnings being born in the Philippines and how they spent their teenage and early adult lives in Canada that shaped their careers in tech and design. They will also share what led them to come back and build a...

After successfully raising a grand total of $30 Million, ER Rollan joins us in this episode to share the hustle it took to build Growsari to where it is now. ER will also share how he built a successful career in FMCG that equipped him with the skills and experience needed for him to take the jump to entrepreneurship. He will also share how he struggled to keep Growsari afloat when he decided to d...

Serial entrepreneur Bill Yuen of StackTrek joins us in this episode to discuss how they're revolutionizing how tech talent get hired. Bill will also share his entrepreneurial journey and how he founded 7 startups prior to StackTrek with 4 failures and 3 exits. He will also share why they built Stackleague, the Philippines' first year-round programming league that helps Filipino devs fast-track the...

Mharicar Castillo-Reyes, President and CEO of Asticom joins us in this episode to share how they are enabling big companies with staffing and tech solutions with thousands of employees. She will also share remarkable career journey in HR highlighted with her stint in the Ayala group and Globe. Mharicar will also share how Asticom pivoted during the pandemic and spun off several companies to furthe...

Fresh off raising a $5 Million pre-series A round Bela Gupta D’Souza, the Founder and CEO of Edamama, joins us in this episode to share her hustle in helping moms find the best products for their babies. Bela will also share her origin story and how she grew up in multiple countries in Asia and how she continued to move around different countries in her first few hustles. She will also share how s...

Gretchen Largoza, CEO of AdSpark joins us in this episode to share how she is leading the biggest digital agency in the Philippines. Gretchen will share how she hustled early and started out her career through direct marketing. She will also share how her career evolved through digital marketing that brought her to lead huge ad agencies like OgilvyOne and GroupM across Southeast Asia. Gretchen wil...

In this episode of #AskHustleshare, Ronster will be teaching a method on how to find out your chances if your startup is going to succeed or fail and how you can change the trajectory you are in. He will also share a tool that can determine how much your startup would need to raise in your future fundraising rounds. He will also answer questions asked by founders from Upscale, the University of Ph...

To start off our 6th Season, we will have Senator Dick Gordon to share the hustle behind the Philippine Red Cross. Sen. Gordon will share his early hustles that immersed him in business and eventually in public service. He will also share how he became a part of the Philippine Red Cross and how he has led them to what it is now and how they did a data-driven approach to combat Covid-19. Sen. Gordo...

Fresh off securing 1 Billion pesos in retail deposits after their 1st month, Greg Krasnov, the Founder and CEO of Tonik Bank, joins us for our season finale of Hustleshare. Greg will share his early hustles in finance and tech that led him into private equity and finance that ultimately led him to get a bank that he founded in Ukraine. He will also share how he helped build fintech companies in So...

Yang Yang Zhang, Managing Director of Xendit Philippines, joins us in this episode to share how she is leading Southeast Asia’s biggest payment solutions provider in the Philippines. She will also share her amazing career in tech and creating products and infrastructure. Yang Yang will also share how she joined Xendit and how she is leading their expansion in the Philippines in the middle of a pan...

Agnes Gervacio, CEO of MDI Novare, joins us in this episode to share how she leads one of the biggest and oldest tech companies in the Philippines. She will also share her journey in her illustrious career and how she overcame stereotypes as a woman while she led multiple tech corporations. She will also share great career advice on how employees can break through challenges to climb up the corpor...

In this edition of #AskHustleshare, Ronster will be answering 3 very interesting questions sent by Hustleshare listeners. The first question is about how can founders protect their business solution from being stolen. The second question asks about how social enterprises can raise funds and the last question asks us how to formulate a startup's company culture. Ronster also provides a lot of tools...

Franco Espinos of Bux, a portfolio company of UBX, joins us in this episode to share how startups and businesses can take advantage of Bux's powerful payment processing methods. Franco will also share his journey coming from corporate to how he became a Product Owner in UBX to lead Bux. He'll also share tips for aspiring founders looking to join venture builders or venture funds as a pathway to la...

Cholo Tagaysay, the COO of the largest telehealth company in the Philippines joins us in this episode to share how KonsultaMD provides 24/7 access to high quality medical info to Filipinos. Cholo will also share his amazing journey in tech and digital media that led him to become a key part of the very first Tech IPO in the Philippines thru Xurpas. He will also share lots of amazing advice especia...

In this edition of #AskHustleshare we brought along Franco Varona of Foxmont Capital to answer questions A member of the #StartupPH community asked us centered around the common traits that founders that get investments have. We also discuss the questions that VCs typically ask that reveal the character of the founder they are looking to back along with the traits they look for from each founding...

Cristian Muñoz, Founder of Draper Startup House in the Philippines joins is in this episode to share his intercontinental journey of entrepreneurship. Cristian would share his humble beginnings in Costa Rica and how he ended up studying and becoming an entrepreneur in China. He will also share how he decided to help other entrepreneurs by joining Draper Startup House by bringing it to the Philippi...

Fresh from their stint in Y Combinator as one of the 3 Filipino startups in YC W21, the co-founders of Dashlabs.ai joins us in this episode to share their journey on providing lab software to emerging markets. Philly Tan, Weston Lim, Bryan Giger and Martin Gomez will also share their respective hustles that prepared them to creating world-class healthcare tech that enabled them to come together du...

An anonymous letter sender sent us very interesting questions for #AskHustleshare about the ideal profile of an angel investor or a VC and we brought along Joan Yao, VP of Investments of Kickstart ventures to do a deep dive on it. We also answered how to properly value a startup from a VC's perspective and what the differences are between a corporate VC and independent VC. Got questions you want t...

George Padin of Buko Ventures joins us in this episode to talk about the newest venture fund in the Philippines founded by current and former Lazada and Rocket Internet executives. George will share his crash course into startups in the Philippines and how he learned to handle tech teams by working for Symph and eventually founding Abstract Digital and specialize in creating MVPs for venture-backe...

Our first letter sender in #AskHustleshare sent us several questions about how they can split their equity among his co-founders before they pitched a potential investor for a startup they are working on. Ronster brought along his co-founders in Podcast Network Asia who are experts in this field to answer the questions on how to properly structure splitting equity among co-founders and how to valu...

Grace David the newly minted CEO of Edukasyon.ph joins us in this episode to share how she will lead the growth of the largest education platform in the Philippines. She will also share her background in business and how she was able to have an incredible career in marketing that took her to multiple stops across Southeast Asia. Grace will also share what's in store for Edukasyon and how she plans...

In the very first edition of #AskHustleshare, Ronster gives his take on a post on the #DLSUFreedomWall48782 where a startup founder shared his experience on having 2 failed tech startups. Ronster will dissect the post point by point to give his take on the anonymous poster's learnings and shine some light if hard work is really enough to succeed in a startup. Got questions you want to ask Ronster...

Luis Sia of 335 Fund and PayMongo joins us in this episode to share how they invested in 2 Filipino Y Combinator startups despite being the newest angel fund in the Philippines. Luis will also share his journey as an entrepreneur starting with his drone business all the way to how they got to YC themselves with PayMongo and how they continued to grow after. He will also dissect what it takes for a...