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The Innovation Playbook of 3 Southeast Asian Founders - E724
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Where does innovation in Southeast Asia actually start? Not in a lab. In this compilation from the BRAVE archive: a lock that took eleven hours to install, a Peter Thiel put-down at Harvard, and customers using a real estate website to sell food. Anthony Chow built Igloo's first smart lock from parts bought in China, watched the first shipments fail, then invented an offline PIN lock (Google Authenticator, but for doors) because vacation rentals have no Wi-Fi. That invention won the Airbnb partnership and now runs more than half...
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Where does innovation in Southeast Asia actually start? Here are three conversations from the archive. Anthony Chow of Igloo on a smart lock for doors with no Wi-Fi built after 11-hour installs and a recall.
Kelvin Teoh of funding societies on turning Asia doesn't need innovation into a playbook. And Dennis Velasco of Prospera on why none of it counts until small businesses trust you. What's interesting is that you're making this set of decisions around this, right? You have to figure out how to hack the product together, which is hardware, so selling, etc.
So I'm just kind of curious because it's such a rare thing. That's in hardware startups. Not very common everybody. Yeah.
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