Southeast Asia
6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2017 by Christian Geissendoerfer · said 104 times in 60 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
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- 1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped
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2017 74 mentions in 41 episodes 2 per episode
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- 665: Blessed or Gutsy? CEO Turns Down $400k Salary to Launch Own Agency
- 33 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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Oct 28, 2017
Jan 3, 2019 neutral
Chitong Leong: Southeast Asia is difficult for multinationals due to market fragmentation
“Southeast Asia is such a tough market for multinationals. It's because it's so fragmented in terms of the culture of the language Even geographically, like Indonesia alone has more than 13,000 islands. It's a really tough place to navigate for companies who ar…”
Jun 29, 2019 bearish
Valishev: Southeast Asia and India are exceptionally hard software markets to monetize
“Southeast Asia is a really, really hard market to monetize. They have huge growth. For example, they got like three million new users of internet every month. That's insane. And they have like growing e-commerce, but it's really hard to get them to pay for a p…”
Jul 26, 2020 bullish
Apr 23, 2022 bearish
Total India and SE Asia MarTech market is only $150M to $200M
“So the challenge for us is that the Indian market is actually quite small, even though the customer base is very large companies don't pay a lot of money yet. So the email market plus the martech business put together would probably be just about 150 odd milli…”
Jan 29, 2026 positive
Sinha: Puma Uses Dresma to Localize European Product Catalog for Southeast Asia
“Puma uses us to basically localize content for all the markets that they are in. So to give you an example we recently essentially helped them launched in Southeast Asia. So all the content that was designed for their European market was localized for the Sout…”