Philippines
8 statements across 7 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2020 by Sean Weisbrot · said 67 times in 24 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (32), Michael Podolsky (9), Pavel Stepanov (7), Matthew Yaes (6), Cody Bramlett (5), Ray Blakney (4), E-Ling Lim (2)
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2025 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2024 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 7 Fortune 250 CEOs Die Unexpectedly Every Year From This
- The Formula for Grossing $400000/Month With a Remote Team
- 3 White Male Co-Founders Noticed a Pattern and Changed It
- Knowledge Without Implementation Is Just Entertainment
- He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him
- 10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- She Offered Flexible Hours and Still Couldn't Keep Top Talent
- Why a Weekly Email Changed What Founders Thought Mattered
- Why Your Superstar Already Has One Foot Out the Door
- Why the Best Feedback Sounds Like a Personal Attack
- $500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 22 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- 600 Employees Later, He Still Creates Roles for the Right Person
- The Thank-You Letter Trick That Shook 10 Top Managers
- The Truth About Funding 2,400 Companies in 70 Countries
- 300 Portfolio Companies Later, 22 Became Unicorns Without Diluting
- The 3 Things She Gives Her Team That Nobody Ever Gave Her
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Philippines, oldest first
Dec 20, 2020 neutral
Weisbrot: Most Southeast Asian and East Asian startups build locally, not globally
“When I look at the startup ecosystem in a given country, let's say Vietnam, for example, they generally are not building for a global audience. I don't just see this in Vietnam. I also see this in Japan and Korea and Philippines and most Southeast Asian countr…”
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…”
Dec 14, 2021 positive
Stepanov: Philippine call center hires possess strong English and US cultural alignment
“Once you actually hire somebody who's from a call center industry, then those people will have great command of the English language at the same time. They have experience working at a U.S. Company, and they understand American mentality better.”
Jan 29, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Offshore teams should not handle sales targeting North American audiences
“So you can hire a bunch of Indians and Filipinos to do your development work and your software testing work. But you may not want to hire them to do your sales and your marketing. If you're targeting a North American audience, because they may not have the cul…”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Aug 6, 2024 negative
May 23, 2025 positive
Yahes: A single Filipino manager autonomously ran his $5.5M e-commerce business
“Specifically one person that was running the e-com, I said to her, everyone is always fascinated that I found some of the Philippines to fully run a business at the time is doing, I think five and a half million dollars where I was not involved in the operatio…”
May 23, 2025 positive
Yaes: Remote Philippine Team Ran Staffing Agency For 2.5 Years
“So I had that business run on its own for
Two and a half years, I would say, while I was involved in a financial technology company, which I got involved in because of my staffing business, that financial technology company scaled massively.
It was a point in …”