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Tech titans Grab, Traveloka, PropertyGuru eye US listings via SPAC merger – but what of Asia’s bourses?
18 April 2021, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Guoli Chen. Some of Southeast Asia’s biggest technology companies are looking to go public by merging with US ‘special purpose acquisition companies’ Observers say the frenzied rush is timely, though there are risks....
Deliveroo IPO’s lesson for digital unicorns: go beyond financials
16 April 2021: The Edge, Singapore, Chengyi Lin. Since its fumbled March IPO, Deliveroo’s price dissipated like our dreams to enjoy a proper summer vacation on a white sandy beach. Before dismissing this as another idiosyncratic event in the digital start-ups world...
How to appease your customers after your algorithm rejects them
14 April, Forbes India, Klaus Wertenbroch, Pavel Kireyev and Geoffrey Tomaino. No one likes to hear "computer says no". But there may be more ways to be transparent about algorithm-driven rejections than you think. From a customer perspective, the only thing more...
$69 million digital art buyer shines light on ‘NFT’ boom
13 April 2021, AFP (Singapore/France), Antonio Fatas. The blockchain entrepreneur who paid a record $69.3 million for a digital artwork looks, at first glance, nothing like a wealthy collector. The 32-year-old is casually dressed in a t-shirt and chinos, lives in a...
The man behind world’s largest Internet restaurant company
11 April 2021, Entrepreneur, US, Jaydeep Barman (MBA'06J), Co-founder & CEO, Rebel Foods. In the life of Jaydeep Barman, the story of Faasos has been the story of a traditional food brand reinventing the whole restaurant industry and giving a new way of delivering...
Terrorists still raise money through crypto, but the impact is limited
9 April 2021, Coin Telegraph, UK. Evidence suggests crypto’s role in terrorism remains relatively minor: “It has not yet become a primary means of terror financing.” We’re living today “amidst an explosion of risk related to fraud, money laundering, terrorist...
Management according to Netflix
Le livre éco de la semaine : Le management selon le patron de Netflix Travailler chez Netflix, c'est d'abord être performant et créatif et, surtout... ne pas avoir peur de prendre la porte très vite. Read more at:...
INSEAD automates and optimizes student and staff experiences
April 2021, Mulesoft US: INSEAD customer story. Challenge. Creating a connected experience for digital learning from anywhere INSEAD, which boasts the #1 MBA program in the world, maintains its edge as one of the globe’s leading and largest graduate business schools...
Wirecard et Greensill, two bankruptcies casting a shadow on fintech
7 Apr 2021, Les Echos, France: Jean Dermine. Les deux start-up de la finance sont tombées pour des raisons distinctes. Mais leur ascension et leur chute présentent plusieurs traits communs : secteur en forte croissance, investisseurs prompts à la prise de risque,...
Facing Pressure At Home, Chinese Tech Giants Expand In Singapore
5 Apr 2021, Barron's (US), by Martin Abbugao. Chinese tech giants are expanding in Singapore as they face a crackdown at home and growing pressure in other key markets -- but they may struggle to find talent in the city-state. Messaging-and-gaming behemoth Tencent is...