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The Founders Peak Podcast

Where exceptional startup founders share untold stories that shaped who they are

An exclusive podcast where we bring exceptional startup founders from around the world who each share their inspiration and a bag full of usable entrepreneurial insights from their journeys. So, if you are an aspiring founder, or busy fund-raising, or nearing a successful exit, or even feeling like you might go down fighting, there"s something useful in here for you. Most talks are hosted and recorded LIVE with audiences at The Founders Peak Stage at the Global Finance & Technology Network"s

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00:11:30

Killer culture in a bootstrap Unicorn! - Season 1...

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2023/12/11

Jason Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of Partior, the trusted global network for value exchange. He is responsible for steering Partior as it charts its growth strategy to disrupt the payments industry and for formulating strategies for the firm’s expansion and product offerings. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services sector under his belt, Jason is known for shaping some of the region’s notable unicorns, Grab Financial Group and OVO. When he’s not in the

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00:09:25

The importance of measuring progress in your startup,...

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2023/12/11

Ang Xing Xian is the CEO and Co-Founder of CapBay, a leading Supply Chain Finance platform that helps businesses obtain smarter financing. Under his leadership, CapBay has provided more than USD 500 million in digital financing to businesses in Southeast Asia. Xing Xian has extensive experience in management consulting as a management consultant with Accenture Strategy, advising multinational companies on technology and analytics. He was also an in-house management consultant for Creador, a private

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00:10:15

Why I attribute success to luck more than anything...

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2023/12/11

Derrick Lee is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Accredify. He oversees the entire process of Accredify's new products and features from ideation, to development and release. He is responsible for the firm's technical roadmap, policy, operational processes, and the growth of Accredify's tech team. Derrick began his career in tech at the age of 12, founding a series of multiple entrepreneurial ventures focused on tech solutions, including developing an online marketplace for

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00:10:23

What does it take to make the leap from corporate to...

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2023/12/11

Arvin Singh is the co-founder of hoolah, Southeast Asia’s first Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment provider that empowers consumers to afford the things they want through flexible payment options while helping merchants grow their payment capabilities. With combined experiences in both the corporate and startup world, he currently leads ShopBack’s Partnerships team in scaling its Financial Services offerings while also leading the BNPL subcommittee for the Fintech Association of Malaysia. In this

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00:10:34

Aristotle and Aurelius: What ancient philosophers can...

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2023/12/11

Yunus Sevimli is the co-founder and CTO of Almond FinTech. His work centres around promoting equitable access to technology across a breadth of fields. Prior to Almond, Yunus held leadership roles in early-stage ventures commercialising cutting-edge medical research, and devised low-tech approaches to poverty alleviation in rural Southeast Asia. He is the author of several patents and scientific papers across medtech, additive manufacturing and robotics. Yunus holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering

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00:11:19

How making unpopular decisions may be difficult but...

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2023/12/11

Joshua Bao is one of SUNRATE's co-founder and is responsible for driving the sales and marketing strategy of the organisation. Prior to co-founding SUNRATE in 2016, Joshua has more than 16 years of experience in global financial and corporate services. As a co-founder, Joshua had to make countless unpopular decisions that he believed were right. While the majority of those decisions have proven to be right, Joshua hopes his experience and insights will help his fellow co-founders follow their

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00:08:09

The lies we entrepreneurs tell ourselves, and why...

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2023/12/11

Nirav Choksi is the Co-founder and CEO of CredAble, India's largest working capital technology platform that enables more than USD 3BN in working capital and has witnessed 500% year-on-year growth. He co-founded CredAble with the aspiration of building an enterprise that empowers the business ecosystem with a seamless flow of credit. Today, CredAble caters to large, mid-sized, emerging corporates, MSMEs and Financial Institutions with its pioneering technological platforms. Nirav is a veteran of

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00:09:44

Nothing can beat someone who won't give up - Season 1...

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2023/12/11

Edmund Ng is a serial entrepreneur, founder of 3 start-ups, one of which grew to $20m valuation in 2 years. A military soldier turned technologist, he has contributed significantly to Singapore’s tech ecosystem, pioneering mainstays like the self-service SAM kiosks and financial and procurement networks behind the scenes. His experience culminates in Doxa Connex, the Collaborative Trade Platform that connects and unifies upstream and downstream procurement, payments and financing among banks,

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00:09:53

Change and Courage - the Role of 2 Cs in my journey -...

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2023/12/11

Pratik Gandhi is the Co-Founder and COO at Nium, a leading fintech company that provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment services. As Co-Founder and COO at Nium, Pratik leads the Global Finance, Compliance, Operations & Customer Service teams. Pratik brings over 25 years of leadership experience into Nium, having worked for companies such as Arthur Andersen, Xerox, PepsiCo and Telstra before specialising in banking in the last 15 years. He was

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00:09:41

Like free solo climbing, entrepreneurship is a battle...

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2023/12/11

Dhruv Arora is the Founder and CEO of Syfe, Asia’s leading digital wealth management platform with a mission to empower people to build their wealth for a better future. Having pursued a career as a trader with a leading investment bank, Dhruv realised that he had a different calling. Having seen the impact of offering wealth management services to high net-worth individuals, Dhruv founded Syfe to offer the same access to wealth management services and financial literacy to the masses. Today, Syfe

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00:11:11

Micro-entrepreneurs are the key to a better life for...

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2023/12/11

Debbie Watkins has lived in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Singapore over the past 20 years, and worked in 30 additional countries throughout Africa and Asia. Her focus for this entire period has been technology-enabled inclusive finance - mobile products and services, business and strategy consulting and management - building multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams in a number of countries. She is now the CEO and co-founder of ⁠Lucy⁠– a mobile banking and business-building services

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00:10:36

How to turn experience into a source of resilience -...

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2023/12/11

Michele Ferrario is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway, the largest digital wealth manager in SEA and MENA. Michele spent half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, as Managing Director at Rocket Internet in Italy, Pakistan and South East Asia, and then as Group CEO of ZALORA, where he was responsible for

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00:11:12

Can success be tamed into becoming a habit? - Season...

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2023/12/11

David Brear is the CEO of 11:FS and since his dream of being a sportsperson was crushed (along with the ligaments in his knee!) and he had to get a proper job, he has worked in pretty much every angle of the financial services industry never losing that competitive desire to drive forwards and win. Having pitched, established and run billion-pound transformations for some of the biggest FS companies on the planet the realisation that Digital Financials Services Is Only 1% Finished has spurred his

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00:10:53

5 things that suck an entrepreneur’s emotional energy...

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2023/12/11

Feng-Yuan Liu is Vice-President of Business Development of Aicadium, Temasek’s AI centre of excellence. Feng-Yuan is a serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur, with a passion for applying data-driven methods and artificial intelligence both in the service of the public good and launching new ventures. He successfully co-founded and exited an early stage Sequoia-backed startup building technology to enable enterprises to build AI software responsibly. Before that he was responsible for launching

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00:09:23

The art of raising capital - The Singlife & Chocolate...

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2023/12/11

Walter de Oude founded Singapore Life in 2014 and grew that business both organically and inorganically to a value of S$3.2bn by 2020. Walter's new venture, Chocolate Finance aims to deliver best in market cash savings returns for almost anyone, almost anywhere. Based on his entrepreneurial experience, Walter has also established Chocolate Ventures, an early stage VC through which Walter invites investors to co-invest with him on opportunities where he feels he can add value. In this talk,

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00:09:08

How to harness your yin & yang as an entrepreneur -...

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2023/12/11

Coen Jonker is the Chairman and co-founder of Tyme, a multi-country digital banking group operating in Asia and Africa. Tyme launched its flagship bank, TymeBank, in South Africa in 2019 with over five million customers, making it one of the fastest-growing digital banks worldwide. Following a successful legal career, Coen joined Standard Bank as its Director of Inclusive Banking in 2005. In 2011, he joined Deloitte as a Partner where he incubated and spun out Tyme prior to its acquisition by

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00:10:32

How winning in video games prepared me to succeed as...

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2023/12/11

Ilya Melkumov was a professional esports player and captain who successfully sold his team to NaVi, one of the biggest gaming organisations in the world. After playing for more than 12 years Ilya decided to switch his career path and move to FOM Capital, a VC firm investing in groundbreaking technology companies. Using the knowledge from FOM Capital and his degree from the London School of Economics Ilya started Inovat, a digital Tax Free refund service that helped travellers save millions on tax

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00:08:24

How I found my why, and you can too - Season 1...

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2023/12/11

Jenny Li is a strategy focused and results orientated finance leader, with more than 15 years’ experience in improving financial governance, working in and advising multinational business to high growth start-ups undertaking rapid change and growth. Jenny co-founded AsiaVerify in 2019, a Singapore incorporated regtech company empowering global businesses to verify businesses in Asia, in real time, so that people can engage with Asia with confidence and ease. Jenny is passionate about speaking in

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00:09:04

Timing hacks for startups - Season 1 (Singapore Nov...

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2023/12/11

Sean Lam was the co-founder of Jewel Paymentech which was acquired by Fintech unicorn Advance Intelligence Group in 2022. His passions include imagineering solutions to complex fraud and security problems that impact the whole of society. He previously served as a risk director at the world's leading payment network and prior as a security consultant with a Big 4 accounting firm. Outside of work, Sean sits on the Singapore Standards Council and volunteers as a police officer with the SPF. In

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00:10:31

Schrödinger’s cat: the double life of an entrepreneur...

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2023/12/11

Phase #0: 15 year intra-preneur, with many firsts in corporate life. Start-up #1: RedPill, pioneered Analytics revolution, exited to IBM Stupidity Gene #2: Crayon Data, go bolder with AI, build a platform - ⁠maya.ai⁠. Uppers: sparky daring people, purpose & values-driven journeys: deadly cocktails - of data & intuition; right & left brain; long term persistence & short term impatience. AI Podcaster, check out #SlavesToTheAlgo. As someone who has successfully sold a company, what he

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