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The Venture is an original podcast hosted by serial business builders from McKinsey. In each episode, our experts cut through the noise to show how leaders can launch new companies, testing their theories in conversations with legendary venture builders in Asia. We break down their journey – how they did it, the challenges they faced, how they built successful businesses.
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28. Targeting an untapped fintech market worth trillions: A conversation with Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta
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The CEO of a cutting-edge fintech explain how his start-up offers investment services once reserved for the ultra-wealthy to successful professionals. As the eight cofounders of Singapore-based Arta Finance got to know one other during their years together at Google, they recognized a massive market gap for investment services aimed people like the…
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27. Now is the time to create new corporate ventures: A conversation with McKinsey’s Paul Jenkins
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The global coleader of Leap by McKinsey discusses the firm’s latest global survey, which finds that business leaders and investors are bullish on building new businesses. Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, businesses are increasingly enthusiastic about creating new ventures, according to McKinsey’s latest global survey on new-business building. …
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26. Disrupting a mature industry with a digital solution: A conversation with Mlion’s Eric Leong
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The CEO of a leading Southeast Asian steel distributor explains why he decided to launch a venture designed to reuse steel, reduce carbon emissions, and disrupt his core business. If the many infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia have a common denominator, it’s steel. And in just 12 years, Singapore-based Mlion has become the region’s large…
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25. Mitigating climate change with venture capital: A conversation with Wavemaker Impact’s Steve Melhuish
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The founding partner of a Southeast Asian VC fund explains his company’s global ambitions to create economic opportunity, promote sustainability, and reduce carbon emissions. Human activity began altering the climate in the mid-19th century, when the industrial revolution began unleashing unprecedented amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. But an …
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24. Uncovering untreated heart disease with AI and big data: A conversation with egnite’s Joel Portice and Edwards Lifesciences’ Don Bobo
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Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer in every developed country, but only one in ten US patients with severe heart ailments received treatment in 2022. Egnite, a healthcare start-up, has ambitious plans to dramatically improve treatment of heart disease by harnessing the power of AI and big data to identify patients who fell through…
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23. A circle of sustainability: A conversation with circulee’s Thomas Gros
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Thomas Gros, CEO and cofounder of circulee, a Berlin-based distributor of pre-owned digital hardware. The German start-up provides smaller businesses with a green and cost-effective alternative to new IT devices, offering them professionally tested and warrantied hardware previously lease…
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22. Tokenizing non-traditional assets: A conversation with Ascend Bit’s Brian Clark
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Brian Clark, chief product officer of Ascend Bit, a Bangkok start-up recently spun off from the Ascend Group, itself a part of Thailand’s C.P. Group. Ascend Bit’s mandate is to leverage blockchain solutions on behalf of the group, focusing on applications for businesses and tokenization f…
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21. Disrupting Thailand’s B2B retail food marketplace: A conversation with Maknet’s Tirayu Songvetkasem
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Tirayu Songvetkasem, also known as Mac. He is the head of Maknet and chief digital officer of Siam Makro, the Thai branch of a multinational serving the hotel, restaurant, café and catering sector (HoReCa). Makro recently leveraged the mothership's market experience and network of partner…
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20. Democratizing alternative asset investing: A conversation with ADDX’s Oi-Yee Choo
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Oi-Yee Choo, CEO of ADDX, a full-service capital markets platform based in Singapore. The fintech start-up uses blockchain and smart contract technology to provide access to a range of securities previously unavailable to mass affluent investors. And in less than three years, ADDX’s innov…
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19. Putting the patient first: A conversation with Roche’s Moritz Hartmann
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Moritz Hartmann, global head of Roche Information Solutions for Roche Diagnostics, one of the Swiss multinational’s two divisions. Adapting to constant technological change and disrupting via science has fueled the 125-year-old company’s longevity, which now uses digital tools and data sc…
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18. Satisfying the toughest customers first: A conversation with Next Gen Foods’ Andre Menezes
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 33:25) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Andre Menezes, cofounder and CEO of Next Gen Foods, a Singapore-based, food tech start-up. Its first product, TiNDLE, a plant-based chicken, is already making waves with chefs and diners in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam…
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17. Tackling the retirement adequacy problem: A conversation with Endowus’ Samuel Rhee
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 38:39) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Samuel Rhee, Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and cofounder of Endowus, a Singapore-based financial technology company that transformed the city-state’s cumbersome social security investment process into a fully digital ex…
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16. Growing meat instead of raising animals for food: A conversation with Eat Just’s Josh Tetrick
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 35:57) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Josh Tetrick, CEO and cofounder of Eat Just, a California-based company that makes eggs from plants and produces meat from animal cells. The company was founded in 2011, and has sold the equivalent of more than 200 million eg…
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15. Getting it right before going global: A conversation with LingoAce’s Hugh Yao
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 38:18) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Hugh Yao, CEO and founder of LingoAce, a Singapore-based online language learning service aimed at children. Hugh founded the company in 2017, and after a couple years of deliberately glacial growth, the business exploded dur…
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14. Giving Gen Z customers what they want: A conversation with by.U’s Edward Ying and Trio Lumbantoruan
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 26:17) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Edward Ying, former director of planning and transformation at Indonesian telco Telkomsel, and Trio Lumbantoruan, vice president of by.U, the carrier’s fully digital start-up. Telkomsel is Southeast Asia’s largest wireless pr…
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13. Scaling up ‘rock-star fast’: A conversation with Foodpanda’s Jakob Angele
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 39:31) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Jakob Angele, CEO of Foodpanda APAC, part of Delivery Hero’s global network of food-delivery services. Angele talks about building a business based on delivering a restaurant meal to someone’s home, which at the time was some…
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12. Lending corporate business builders a helping hand: A conversation with New Ventures’ Alvin Cai
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 39:08) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Alvin Cai, vice president of New Ventures, the corporate business-building arm of Singapore’s Economic Development Board. Cai talks about his group’s new Corporate Venture Launchpad, a S$10 million pilot program designed to h…
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11. Building e-commerce ecosystems on Amazon: A conversation with Rainforest’s JJ Chai
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 34:42) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss the importance of a programmatic approach to acquiring and scaling brands, and the multiple advantages of business-building on the world’s largest e- commerce platform–Amazon. JJ Chai, CEO and cofounder of Rainforest, a Singapore-based, e-commerce brand…
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10. Differentiation through constant innovation: A conversation with Ninja Van’s Lai Chang Wen
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 45:19) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss the importance of establishing dominance in the core business before branching out, key success factors for a company to win in new marketplaces, and the need to constantly reexamine your key differentiator. Lai Chang Wen, CEO and cofounder of Ninja Van…
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9. Digitization, decarbonization, and electrification: A conversation with CLP Holdings’ Austin Bryan
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 40:41) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss the challenge of launching a traditional utility player on a path of innovation and how an organization can build sustainability into its strategy, promote a culture of innovation within the organization, and reinvent its business for the future. Austin…
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8. Building sustainable and affordable urban living: A conversation with White Peak’s Jesper Jos Olsson
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In this episode of The Venture, we discuss the challenge of entering a highly competitive Chinese market without a local partner, the importance of being data driven to understand the customer, and how to embrace a culture of failing and learning in order to scale. Jesper Jos Olsson, group CEO and founding partner of White Peak Real Estate, explain…
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7. Giving and reaping rewards: A conversation with ShopBack’s Joel Leong
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 21:53) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss how to introduce a proven business model in different markets, localize that model for the new region, and fertilize it to become the market leader. Joel Leong, CEO and cofounder of ShopBack, explains how the company positioned itself as a pre-shopping …
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6. 2020 season recap: Building and scaling new businesses
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 25:24) > In this special episode of The Venture, join us for a season recap of all the learnings from past episodes of 2020 with leaders from incumbents True Digital, Jardine Matheson, and Globe Telecom; venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital; and digital attacker Carro. Andrew Roth and Tomas Laboutka from…
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5. Stressing customer obsession: A conversation with Pieter Kemps of Sequoia Capital
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 39:11) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss the role of VCs in new businesses - how they evolve to be more value add and how is their relationship different from the incumbent and new business. Pieter Kemps, Principal at Sequoia Capital explains why it sometimes makes sense to delay monetization …
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4. Building a start-up innovation ecosystem: A conversation with Jardine Matheson’s Anne O’Riordan and Michael Poon
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 35:41) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss how incumbents collaborate with start-ups to build an innovation ecosystem across all business units. Anne O'Riordan and Michael Poon from Jardine Matheson, a 188- year-old Asian conglomerate, share the company’s journey to bring speed, capability build…
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3. Growing an incumbent by building a new business: A conversation with Bernd Vindevogel of True Digital
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 35:47) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss why building new businesses is essential for growth and reinvention for large organizations. Bernd Vindevogel, chief analytics officer at True Digital Group, shares the company’s journey to building and scaling an in-house analytics organization from sc…
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2. Culture Matters with Glenn Estrella, Entrepreneur in Residence at Globe’s 917Ventures
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 30:39) > In this episode of The Venture, we discuss why culture matters to drive long term impact. Glenn Estrella from Globe Telecommunications' corporate incubator, 917Ventures, explains how Globe has become the largest mobile network operator in the Philippines. We also discuss how corporates can lever…
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1. Clone or Create with Aaron Tan, CEO of Carro
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 27:11) > In this episode of The Venture, we breakdown the Clone vs Create debate. Aaron Tan, the CEO and founder of Carro, shares how he has dramatically grown Carro, now the #1 automobile marketplace in Southeast Asia, since 2015. We discuss how to break out from the crowd, address capability gaps in or…
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