The Impulso Podcast
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The Impulso Podcast is hosted by Momentum Works, a venture outfit headquartered in Singapore. Each week, our in-house experts, community and guests unpack the latest trends, undercurrents and lessons in tech across borders. We explore topics like innovation, ecommerce, digital financial services, venture investment, and the broader digital economy.
In addition to covering our home base of Southeast Asia and advanced global markets like the US, we also draw extensive lessons from tech companies in China.
Visit momentum.asia or get in touch via hello@mworks.asia for our insights reports, newsletter, Academy and Venture offerings.
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Impulso E135: Food Delivery Platforms Explained In 20 Minutes
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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From China to the world: The secrets behind SHEIN's success | Impulso E134 [EN]
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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E133: How a Small Chinese EV Is Beating Automobile Giants
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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E132: How Maps Quietly Control the Modern Economy
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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E131: Laopu Gold: the Cartier of China?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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E131: Inside Luckin Coffee: How they launch 119 drinks a year
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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E130: Shopee, SPX, Monee: Sea Group's Engines Are Powering Ahead, but Eyes Are on Brazil
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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E129: Why Great Food Isn’t Enough for Restaurants to Succeed, Featuring Prof. Sherri Kimes
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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E128: Behind $0 Bubble tea in china: China's quick commerce war explained
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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E127: Is POPMart engineering a soft landing for Labubu?
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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E126: Shall we be optimistic about ecommerce in Southeast Asia?
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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E125: How AI is unlocking $131B in SEA ecommerce
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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E124: Labubu makes no sense - and that’s why it sells
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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E123: Luckin Coffee brings manufacturing back to the USA?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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E122: Does 15 minutes quick commerce work in India, or anywhere in this world? | Impulso E122
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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E121: 99food vs. Keeta, Quem vai ganhar?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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E120: Swiping for style: Gen Z's fashion playbook
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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E119: Why is EVERY Chinese company going to Brazil?
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May 27, 2025 |
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E118:Why Grab prices are so different across Southeast Asia?
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May 08, 2025 |
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E117: Foodpanda exits Thailand after 13 years... what happened？
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May 06, 2025 |
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E116: Do Xiaomi cars still have a future?
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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E115: Chagee's US IPO, the new "Starbucks or tea"
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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E114: China’s Didi and Meituan clash in Brazil’s food delivery market
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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E113: Why are ecommerce giants entering food delivery?
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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E112: How AI humans are killing marketing
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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E111: Live-selling cars in malls? China’s EV retail strategy
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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从中国到全世界：解读拼多多和Temu的低价策略 | Impulso E110 [CN]
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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From China to the world: Temu’s low price strategy decoded | Impulso E110 [EN]
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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E109: Beauty, Curling Irons & 11M Influencers: Inside TikTok Shop’s US Boom
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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E108: From Dianping to RedNote: Shanghai’s role in breeding successful consumer apps
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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E107: Will TikTok survive in the US?
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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E106: Behind Chinese youth’s love for Capybaras
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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E105: Collapse of a Chinese EV company, livestreamed
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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E104: 11.11 Singles' Day: the backstory
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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E103: Behind the Labubu craze: PopMart business explained
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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E102: Behind Pinduoduo’s ¥10 billion merchant subsidies
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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E101: Alibaba’s ecommerce merger mirrors Temu’s strategy?
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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E100: China ecommerce parcel volume surpassed 150 billion this year
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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E99: Shopee's US$4.6 billion lending business
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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E98: Shopee’s in-house logistics: 4 billion parcels a year?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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E97: US election, Xi meets Modi, Luckin prepares U.S. takeover
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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E96: (Only) after $72B invested, VCs hitting reset in Southeast Asia?!
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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E95: How Meituan overtook FoodPanda in Hong Kong, and what’s next?
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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E94: Disneyland or Cyberpunk: how does this Chinese restaurant serve 40,000 diners a day?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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E93: Life after Rocket Internet: conversation with Blake Larson & Alex Le (3/3)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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E92: Impact of Rocket Internet in fragmented markets: conversation with Blake Larson & Alex Le (2/3)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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E91: Founders walk a lonely road: conversation with Blake Larson & Alex Le (1/3)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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E90: Closing the gap with China: Vietnam’s ecommerce growth?
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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E89: WTF is Carbon Accounting?!
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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E88: Why Starbucks ousted 3rd chosen successor of Howard Schulz?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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E87: Chagee reenters Singapore
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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E86: Luckin Coffee opens 20,000th store
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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E85: Delivery Hero losing grip?
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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E84: TikTok Shop vs Temu in SEA
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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E83: Will Amazon succeed in copying Temu?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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E82: China’s 618 eCommerce Sales dropped or grew?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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E81: Where has all the fintech funding gone?
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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E80: Temu enters Brazil, joining Shopee, SHEIN and Aliexpress
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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E79: What makes a top KOL, and other learnings
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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E78: Is TikTok Shop giving up overtaking Shopee?
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May 24, 2024 |
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E77: Why is live commerce in Southeast Asia so patchy?
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May 17, 2024 |
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E76: Starbucks vs Luckin in China, who is winning?
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May 10, 2024 |
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E75: Is MCN a good business model?
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May 03, 2024 |
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E74: Transforming digital transformation: lessons from world's best digital bank
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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E73: The 2nd phase of live commerce & the role of KOCs
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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E72: Our learnings from visiting top MCNs in China
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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E71: Joe Tsai interview redefines who Alibaba's customers really are
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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E70: Succession - successful tech founders’ dilemma
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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E69: The business model behind BuyNowPayLater
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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E68: Alibaba is giving up on new retail
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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E67: Dmitry Levit & Boon Ping Chua on the distress in Southeast Asia, and why it’s not evenly distributed
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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E66: TikTok has no good options
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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E65: Will health labels reduce bubble tea consumption?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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E64: Does Shopee have a moat?
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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E63: How does Luckin Coffee open 1000 new stores every month?!
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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E62: What is the “right price” of Foodpanda for Grab?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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E61: What drives live commerce in China to be a trillion dollar business?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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E60: Omar Kassim on Middle East venture & investment ecosystem trends
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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E59:Will DoorDash enter Southeast Asia, and other questions on food delivery answered!
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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E58: Why Meituan CEO takes over overseas businesses?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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E57: [In focus] Food delivery in Southeast Asia 2024
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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E56: Temu to allow US local sellers from Mar 15, targeting Amazon?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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E55: Why is Lazada CEO taking over Daraz?
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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E54: Jasper Knoben on ecommerce in Southeast Asia: past, present and future
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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E53: Will there be war after Taiwan's elections?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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E52: Live, die, repeat: Fernando Pinheiro’s journey from internet founder to freezing dead people
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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E51: Lazada layoffs: lessons from history and Jack Ma
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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E50: Keith Zhai, veteran journalist on China, media and 2024
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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E49: What’s behind Lazada layoffs
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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E48: Jon Russell and Aulia Masna on TikTok-GoTo deal
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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E47: Why does Alibaba replace Taobao CEO?
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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E46: SenseTime founder’s passing & AI companies’ challenges in China
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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E45: Where in Europe people share common birthday?
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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E44: The winners and losers of the TikTok-GoTo deal
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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E43: What’s next for e-commerce in SEA?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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E42: Why were 2011~16 golden years of Chinese tech?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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E41: [Commentary]: Lessons and implications of Pinduoduo and Meituan results
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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E40: Coffee in Southeast Asia: key success factors and growth opportunities in a saturated market
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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E39: [CBO talks] Venturing into Indonesia: common mistakes, opportunities, and megatrends
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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E38: TikTok Shop after ban: all your questions, answered!
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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E36: Temu’s Super Bowl: maintaining operational efficiency and pivoting customer acquisition strategy in the US
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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E35: Flash coffee exits Singapore, Foodpanda appoints new CEO, J&T’s upcoming IPO
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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E34: [COO talks] running Alibaba-owned ecommerce in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (all at once)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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E33: [Unfiltered CTO talks] US vs China team culture, business design, loneliness, the future
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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E32: Indonesia bans purchases on social media platforms
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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E31: [Exclusive] In focus: TikTok Shop
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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E30: [In-depth] Momentum Works goes to PE/VC summit
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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E29: Indonesia plans to ban TikTok Shop, Luckin x Moutai sells more than 5 mil cups in day, Lummo’s liquidation
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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E28: [In-depth] Answering more of your TikTok Shop questions
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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E27: Temu breaks into SEA, TikTok’s consignment model and SEA shopper insights
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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E26: Momentum Works Goes to China Part 2/2
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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E26: Momentum Works Goes to China Part 1/2
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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E25: [In-depth] Food Delivery platforms and landscape in Asia
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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E24: GoTo launches GoPay app, TikTok Shop’s logistical dilemma and a Chinese tech investment ban for the US
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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E23: [In-depth] Finding business clarity with Meituan
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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E22: Elon is fined again, China considers tech restrictions for kids and AI is replacing recruiters
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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E21: [In-depth] The rise and strategies of SHEIN
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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E20: Twitter becomes X, Grab buys Trans-cab, Temu enters South Korea, and EV motorcycles in Indonesia
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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E19: [In-depth] Luckin Coffee’s expansion, and the impact on Starbucks
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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E18: [In-depth] Ant Group part two: building the future
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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E17: [In-depth] Ant Group part one: rise and challenges
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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E16: Ant Group’s $984 million fine, Hongshan sets up offices in SEA, Temasek’s $6 billion loss and an aquaculture unicorn
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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E15: [In-Depth] TikTok Shop’s rapid expansion
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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E14: Meituan acquires an AI company, Lazada ID’s new CEO and Cainiao’s cross border expansion
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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E13: [In-Depth] Inside Temu’s culture
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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E12: Half Year Review: AI, Adani, Layoffs, SVB, Tech stocks and optimism
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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E11: [In-Depth] Ecommerce players in Southeast Asia
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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E10: Gates and Blinken in China, Alibaba’s leadership reshuffle, Grab’s layoffs, and J&T Express IPO
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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E09: [In-Depth] Bubble Tea in Southeast Asia
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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E08: GoTo’s new CEO, Altman’s world tour, MissFresh delisting, and Ecommerce in SE Asia
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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E07: [In-Depth] Ecommerce in Southeast Asia
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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E06: Sequoia’s split, Apple’s Vision Pro, SEC vs Binance & Temu’s expansion in Europe
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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E05: [In-depth] Elon Musk’s trip to China, Tesla and Twitter
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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E04: Everyone is copying Temu, Elon Musk in Beijing, Existential risks of AI, and Web3 insurance
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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E03: [In-depth] Making sense of Alibaba‘s biggest restructuring in history
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May 31, 2023 |
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E02: Meituan’s Expansion into Hong Kong, Grab’s Co-Founder Steps Down, Alibaba’s Restructuring and Layoffs, and Bubble Tea!
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May 26, 2023 |
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E00: Cento x Momentum Works: On Stranger Tides: Southeast Asia Tech Investment in 2023
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May 22, 2023 |
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E01: Sea Group and Grab earnings, Sam Altman’s Congress testimony, Luckin Coffee entering Singapore
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May 19, 2023 |