Indo Tekno Podcast

When listening to Bram Viktor 's personal story of achievement as an entrepreneur, Winston Churchill's famous quote comes to mind: “ Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm ." Bram's enthusiasm and entrepreneurial vigour are indeed infectious. He self-deprecatingly attributes his unquenchable desire to build and innovate in his early years to a m...

Indonesian grab-and-go coffee chain Kopi Kenangan has grown to more than 350 stores in less than three years; a scale that global juggernaut Starbucks for instance took 23 years to achieve. Kopi Kenangan's growth moreover has been achieved with consistent profitability at both the store and company levels. Kopi Kenangan Cofounder and CEO Edward Tirtanata joins the Indo Tekno podcast to walk u...

Welcome to this week’s “ podcast on Indo podcasting ”. Yes, this podcast is devoted to Indonesia's podcasting industry.  As we established last week with our coverage of the country's streaming video industry, online media is one of the most promising parts of Indonesia's consumer internet. This week, we continue our "Sino Indo Tekno" sub-series with partner Art Dicker of...

Indonesia seems primed to leapfrog into the online media age. With only 0.6 movie screens per 100,000 in population (or roughly 1/20th of US levels), consumption of video-on-demand has skyrocketed this year, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has kept people at home, and offline theaters have closed their doors. This week's guest, GoPlay CEO Edy Sulistyo , believes that the premium video-o...

Indonesia has one of the world's lowest insurance penetration rates at 1.79%. This situation is set to change, dramatically ... Indeed, Indonesian insurance adoption seems ready to advance rapidly behind the innovations of industry leaders such as our guest this week, Cleosent Randing , and his InsurTech platform, PasarPolis . PasarPolis and its industry peers are dealing with a totally clean...

" Sino Indo Tekno " is a new collaboration with leading China technology authority Art Dicker and his Shanghai-based Gan Bei podcast . Sino Indo Tekno will air regularly to address the growing interconnectedness of the China and Indonesia technology worlds. In our first instalment of Sino Indo Tekno, we feature Helen Wong , Partner at leading Chinese VC Qiming Ventures . Qiming is one of...

FACT : There are 160 Chinese companies listed in the US, most of them internet companies. They represent roughly USD1.5trn in value. FACT : From Southeast Asia, we have exactly one internet company listed in the US with a market cap of USD50b. There are moreover zero US-listed Indonesian tech companies. What important milestones do Indonesia’s tech companies need to achieve in order for the IPO pi...

(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini ) Southeast Asia has embraced eSports with a fervour unmatched by any other region in the world. Indonesia specifically has of recent outgrown its neighbours in eSports. As eSports has gone mobile, Indonesia has leap-frogged from notoriously poor fixed line network connectivity, to the faster speeds of its mobile networks, thus making anyone with a smartphone a...

(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini ) The online learning opportunity in Indonesia is simply massive. EduTech now stands as one of the fastest growing areas of investment in the venture capital world, along with Fintech and Healthtech. The country's basic educational needs moreover are acute: Indonesia is ranked #65 out of 73 participant countries in the PISA math, science, and reading rankin...

(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini ) Indonesia is the heaviest user of mobile apps of the world's 20 largest markets. Smartphone owners in Indonesia on average spent an astounding 5.5 hours per day on their mobile apps in the month of March, according to global mobile app analytics leader App Annie. Their peers in markets such as the US and Germany meanwhile spent a mere 2.7 hours and 2.4 ho...

(Transkrip Bahasa Indonesia di sini ) We’ve chosen as our first topic of discussion the largest part of the Indonesian internet economy, e-commerce, and the mission-critical enabler to its growth, logistics. The Google Temasek Southeast Asia Internet Economy Report estimated that the region’s e-commerce market hit USD38b in Gross Merchandise Value (or GMV) in 2019. Indonesia e-commerce GMV alone l...