Asia
12 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 4, 2021 by Sean Weisbrot · said 250 times in 115 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (199), Chris Wong (14), Paul Ong (7), Brian Dubois (7), Ray Blakney (3), Kim Desmond (3), E-Ling Lim (3), Don Finley (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 17 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
- 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins
- Your Business Isn't Stagnating, Your Mindset Is (Live Coaching)
- He Built a Mutual Fund Out of 200 Recruiting Clients and Hit $50M
- Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
- Why High Earners Refused Free Money (Then Sent More Referrals)
- Manufacture Where You Sell: Why It Took Him 5 Years to Listen
- He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 29 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Lights Out Factories: When the Goal Is No Humans Inside
- 137 Countries Taught Him Why Users Do What You Want
- Why Jeffrey Stopped Lending His Parents Money in His Late Twenties
- You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M
- 200 Episodes In and I Still Had No Idea What the Podcast Was For
- She Runs on a Cultural Balance Sheet Instead of a Financial One
- His SWAG Method Turns Wild Guesses Into Quarterly Wins
- From $0 to Half a Million in 30 Days Without Running a Single Ad
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 42 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- His Six-Month Relationship Contract Actually Works
- A Swedish Founder Saw What Mexican Banks Missed in Their Own Data
- He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him
- 3 White Male Co-Founders Noticed a Pattern and Changed It
- Founders Only Capture 5% of the Value They Actually Create
- The 911 Operator Pitied Him More Than the Patient Did
- CIA Took His Case Mid-Investigation and Never Told Him Why
- Every New Level Has a New Devil - He Proved It From $5M to $75M
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 71 mentions in 24 episodes 3 per episode
- Her Fans Looked Male On Instagram But Her Shopee Data Said Otherwise
- $500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery
- He Wrote the Book on Executive Loneliness After Losing a Friend to Suicide
- Why Men Hung Up After 20 Minutes But Women Had a Long List
- Why the Best Feedback Sounds Like a Personal Attack
- Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain
- Estonia Has No Income Tax for Companies - If You Never Declare a Profit
- Psilocybin Made a Purely Logical Man Say I Love You to His Brother
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 63 mentions in 37 episodes 2 per episode
- 300 Portfolio Companies Later, 22 Became Unicorns Without Diluting
- The Truth About Funding 2,400 Companies in 70 Countries
- She Bought Toilet Paper in Bali Before She Knew Her Business Was Gone
- 600 Employees Later, He Still Creates Roles for the Right Person
- The Thank-You Letter Trick That Shook 10 Top Managers
- The Working Mom Gap Nobody Talks About (It's Not the Glass Ceiling)
- Chinese Customers Used the Drive-Through on Foot
- She Thought Her Product Was Obvious - Then Watched 10 Strangers Struggle
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 28 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- The Hidden Cost of 9-9-6: Why Bay Area Engineers Are Spoiled
- The Hidden Drought That Toppled Governments Across a Whole Region
- The Real Root of Burnout Isn't Workload — It's Unworthiness
- The 'No Blueprint' Truth Behind Selling Three Brands
- 45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It
- The Chess Board Secret: Why Small Businesses Only Have One Move
- The Secret Behind Taking 64 Companies Across 34 Industries to the Next Level
- Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
Everything said about Asia, oldest first
Mar 4, 2021 negative
Weisbrot: Teenage social restrictions in Asia hinder adult communication skills
“I think the problem in that regard with a lot of people, maybe especially in Asia, again, is like they are not allowed to socialize. They are not allowed to date. In their teenage years, like Americans are. There's just a tremendous amount of social engagement…”
Mar 4, 2021 positive
Lim: Asian Founders Solve Market-Specific Problems Rather Than Copying US Models
“The problems that you see in Indonesia, the problems that you see in Singapore, the problems that you see in Philippines or in Korea, they are all different. The market is different. The users is different. The habits, behaviors, everything is different. So fo…”
Jun 29, 2021 negative
Societal Pressures Make Quitting Corporate Careers Harder in Asia
“It's very, very, very hard for someone to leave a career without their parents and their grandparents and their siblings and their friends giving them so much shit because society in Asia is like, you get a job, you get married. It's very similar to America, b…”
Dec 1, 2021 positive
Apr 20, 2022 positive
Sep 27, 2022 negative
Weisbrot: Social media worsened loneliness and Asian professionals fear vulnerability
“I think social media made it worse. I think COVID made it obvious. And now it's time we figure out how to actually deal with it instead of sweeping it under the rug, especially in Asia, I discovered people are really, really afraid to be vulnerable. And talk a…”
Nov 23, 2022 negative
Nov 23, 2022 neutral
Cross-Platform Social Analytics Fail for Asian Creators Compared to North America
“If you told me that we're working with a North American content creator who has statistics on, let's say Twitch on Twitter and YouTube. I think, yeah, that's should be collated because all of those three platforms can be directly linked together to look at cer…”
Nov 23, 2022 negative
Wong: Asian influencers prioritize short-term payouts over long-term brand integrity
“In Asia, it would be gambling websites. And that's just terrible because Gambling websites overall in Asia are largely banned. And so it really hurts their image and they just care about the initial short-term gains of the financial aspect. And they don't care…”
Feb 14, 2023 neutral
Weisbrot: Lisbon expats work in tech while Asian expats teach English
“But what I found in, in Lisbon so far is that they've got, you know, like tech jobs or their company founders or, you know, whatever they're doing something, they're scientists, they're researchers, they're, you know, developers they're doing things that are w…”
Feb 14, 2023 bearish
Weisbrot: Building non-teaching careers or businesses in Asia is extremely difficult
“And so it's really, really hard in Asia to make a life for yourself that's outside of the education sector, unless you start a business, and even then, it's hard as a foreigner to start a business and run a business, unless you've got a local partner maybe tha…”
Aug 13, 2024
Weisbrot: American parents sacrifice retirement for kids, while Asian children repay parents
“And I think, especially in America, they sacrifice their own future in their retirement. In order to make sure that their kids have, you know, college and all of that. And in Asia, as soon as they finish their school and they get a job, they start to pay back.”