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About this episode

Arnaud Rubeck is an entrepreneur and management professional with over 10 years of experience. Currently, he is the founder & CEO of TripTax. Arnaud’s expertise spans a range of areas including strategic planning, operations consulting, and project management. He also has a strong interest in AI, fintech, blockchain, travel and food tech.

Here are some highlights of our discussion:

• Licensing and monopoly in the industry
• The 4 pillars of a government-startup playbook: patience with an incremental-first approach to deliver gradual win-win outcomes, word choice matters a lot, the backdoor, finding support to build trust, 
• The importance of having a northstar for B2G startups
•  Who created the rules and how companies can bring a change in legislation
•  Why governments are hesitant to trust big projects and promises
• How to structure a venture studio model that is designed to provide solutions to the government

About this episode

Archit Anand is the founder and CEO of Omnirio, a plug-and-play platform that allows bringing the retail ecosystem in SEA together on one platform, providing an Amazon-like experience to customers. Archit works with some of the biggest publicly listed companies as well as MSMEs, helping them survive and grow in the new normal. Archit’s background as a Software Engineer enables him to understand the technology and position it to the market needs.

The conversation covers a wide range of topics:

• Unpacking the e-commerce stack and what layers are broken or inefficient;
• Regional e-commerce differences between Southeast Asia and India and why India seems to be years ahead of SEA!
• What e-commerce opportunities lie ahead for entrepreneurs, from data interoperability and data intelligence to brand rollups and simplified e-commerce UX experiences for low-income demographics;
• How e-commerce brands are built by traditional players and new age folks coming online, and the build-to-exit approach many smaller brands are starting to adopt;
• What a serious SEA e-commerce venture builder may look like: 60% segment focus in B2C/D2C, 30% tech enablement, 10% Web2-to-Web3.

Archit’s LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/archit-anand

About this episode

Thomason Chan is a Lifetime Entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Singapore-based Great Full, a cloud kitchen platform. In this episode Slash CEO Andries De Vos and Thomason Chan discuss the topics of success measurement, selection criteria for co-founders, building a portfolio and team philosophy for people management.

Podcast host, Slash CEO Andries De Vos and Thomason Chan cover a great deal of topics, such as:

• Measuring success and catching the industry wave to ensure success
• What a co-founder needs to have in them to succeed
• How venture building compares to parenthood
• What a good HR philosophy looks like

Website URL: https://great-full.co/ 

Thomason’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomason-chan/  

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Mario Baumann is an entrepreneur, marketer and investor. He has had a front row seat on how the gaming industry has exploded in the last 15 years, working for the iconic World of Tanks game as the first overseas employee. He has a deep expertise in licensing deals for the gaming industry, ecommerce, entertainment, FinTech and Adtech. Over the last few years, Mario has focused on more venture building advisory, an entrepreneurs, boutique M&A and investment deals, and helping startups expand from Europe to Latam and Asia.

In this episode Slash CEO Andries De Vos and Mario Baumann discuss:

• Mario’s experience as the 1st overseas hire of ‘World of Tanks’, the company’s global success and how innovations happen in the gaming industry
• How play-to-earn might impact the gaming industry and the importance of engaging the community in gaming industry
• Growth-as-a-service for a VB studio
• Venture opportunities in the emerging Sustainability and eCommerce industry in Asia
• How M&A process for smaller deals in Asia could be fixed

Website URL: https://www.baasingapore.com

Mario’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariobaumann

About this episode

Nick Martin is the CEO of Mission. Plus, it is a digital innovation studio that combines engineering, design agility, expertise, and commercialization to deliver market-ready tech products. Listen to the episode to deep dive into methodologies for prototyping and validating early-stage ideas at a very low cost.

Website URL: https://www.mission.plus/

Nick’s LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/nicholasrjmartin