PODCAST · business
Sidedoor Podcast
by Jesse Bouman
Candid stories and lessons from startup founders, executives, and investors. The top founders, always have to find a side door in. Discover what founders have learned about resilience, growth, creativity, and innovation from their own personal journeys.
Episodes
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Kevin Mintaraga - Lessons from a 3x Startup Founder
Kevin Mintaraga is one of the most successful startup founders in Indonesia. His journey started with a digital marketing agency that was acquired by WPP. He then went on to found a bridal business that was acquired by ecommerce giant, Tokopedia. There, as CMO, he guided the company to a…
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Mario Gaw - Reimagining Bookkeeping with AI
Mario Gaw is a YC alum and founder/CEO of Jutsoo. Jutsoo is AI-bookkeeping software, that's designed to save your team hours with its automated tasks, powered by artificial intelligence. Jutsoo is a pivot from Bananas, a quick commerce, grocery delivery app. In this episode, Mario and I discuss…
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Solo Episode - The Story of How Slice Almost Died
I'm experimenting with a solo podcast today. No guest. Just me, Jesse Bouman, talking about my journey as a startup founder. Earlier this year, Slice, my company, almost died. This is the story of how we turned it around, lessons I learned, and what you can do to avoid this stressful time with…
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Reinis Simanovskis - Building Embedded Lending Infrastructure
Reinis Simanovskis is a Latvian expat living in Jakarta, building Finfra. As their Chief Product Officer, Reinis is helping build lending infrastructure to help non-financial businesses offer financial services within their platforms. In our chat, we discuss Finfra's early days, how they got…
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Agung Bezharie Hadinegoro - Digitizing Warungs to VC Partner
Agung Bezharie Hadinegoro joins the pod. He is currently a Partner at Antler and the former CEO of Warung Pintar. Agung and Jesse chat about his journey with Warung Pintar from ideation to exit. The Indonesian tech landscape and he's hoping to see from its growth in the future. Antler:...
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David Nugroho - Livestreaming in Indonesia
Slice Group CEO and Sidedoor host Jesse Bouman (@jessebouman) is joined by David Nugroho, Founder and CEO of DCT Agency. DCT’s business is expanding but much of their success has come from TikTok and livestreaming with influencers. David shares how DCT came to fruition and what he’s learned...
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Mulyono Xu - Digitizing Indonesian SME
Slice Group CEO and Sidedoor host Jesse Bouman (@jessebouman) is joined by Mulyono Xu, co-founder and CEO of Desty Page. Desty Page helps SME entrepreneurs with their digital products in Indonesia. A former VC, Mulyono shares his thoughts on building product and building a growing business. (This...
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The Sidedoor Pod is Back!
After a hiatus from this pod to work on my startup, Sidedoor is back. I'm dusting off the microphone and interviewing more founders in SEA to tell the stories and learn from their journeys.
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Daniel Cahyadi - Enabling F&B in Indonesia
Slice Group CEO and Sidedoor host Jesse Bouman (@jessebouman) is joined by Daniel Cahyadi, co-founder and COO of Wahyoo. Wahyoo is a food and beverage enablement company. Daniel shares Wahyoo's origin story, how they pivoted the business three times, and how they have grown while keeping food...
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Irzan Raditya - A Veteran of AI Chatbots
Slice Group CEO and Sidedoor host Jesse Bouman (@jessebouman) is joined by Irzan Raditya, co-founder and CEO of Kata.ai. Kata.ai has been around for more than eight years, longer than most Sidedoor guests. He's experienced his fair share of ups and downs, including laying off 90% of his staff....
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Widijastoro Nugroho - Keeping the Last Mile Cold
Slice Group CEO and Sidedoor host Jesse Bouman (@jessebouman) is joined by Fresh Factory’s co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Widi Nugroho. In a past life, they were colleagues at Mindshare, now they’re both tech entrepreneurs. Widi explains what Fresh Factory does and how they reached...
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Jeth Soetoyo - How Pintu Earns User Trust
Sidedoor host and Slice Group CEO Jesse Bouman (www.twitter.com/jessebouman) chats with Jeth Soetoyo, CEO of Pintu to discuss how Pintu earns users' trust and champions a growing crypto industry in Indonesia. -- Links: Sign up for Pintu: https://pintu.co.id/ Check out Presenting Sponsor Slice:...
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Dr. Timothy Astandu - How Populix Powers Good Decisions
Sidedoor host and Slice Group CEO Jesse Bouman (www.twitter.com/jessebouman) chats with Dr. Timothy Astandu, CEO of Populix to discuss how Populix helps companies of all sizes with market research. Links: Sign up for Populix: https://info.populix.co/ Check out Presenting Sponsor Slice:...
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Ronald Ishak - Developing Indonesia’s Technical Talent
Indonesia is in the midst of a technical renaissance. Within the past ten years, Indonesia has gone from a country confused by tech startups, to a booming industry with multiple billion dollar companies. But as the excitement around tech startups has grown, the strain on the country's technical...
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Samira Shihab - Bootstrapping a Fashion Marketplace
Samira Shihab is the co-founder and CEO of Tinkerlust, a secondhand fashion marketplace in Indonesia. Shihab spent much of her youth in Pennsylvania and then moved to Silicon Valley to get her MBA. After moving back to Indonesia, she started her first company and learned that taking a western...
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Cleo Randing: Making Insurance Simple
Roughly 2% of all Indonesians have insurance. While fintech gets a lot of the headlines, insurance has an equally large opportunity in Indonesia. Cleo Randing is the founder and CEO of PasarPolis, an insurance startup using tech to simplify the process of buying insurance in Indonesia. In this...
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Pamitra Wineka - The Accidental Entrepreneur
Today's guest is TaniHub Group co-founder and president, Pamitra Wineka, otherwise known as Eka. TaniHub is on a mission to help Indonesian farmers get more reliable and higher income from each of their harvests. They do this through three core business units: TaniHub marketplace, TaniFund P2P...
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Nipun Mehra - Powering Indonesian Retail
Today’s guest is Nipun Mehra, co-founder and CEO of Ula. Ula is on a mission to help offline retail shops with their wholesale purchasing. It’s hard getting reliable products at wholesale prices and there are many different people and companies to buy products from, making operations fragmented…
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Hiro Kiga - From VC to Founder
Hiro Kiga is the co-founder and COO of Wallex, a B2B fintech company. His career started as a developer at a bank and moved into venture capital before getting the itch to build something. We’ve heard entrepreneur stories here and last week we got a glimpse of VC life last week. But Hiro is the...
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Shiyan Koh - Backing Hilariously Early Founders
Venture capital is both over glorified and misunderstood. VCs are an important part of the tech ecosystem. You need capital to build a business and venture capitalists will invest in highly risky, early stage startups when traditional banks will not. Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and...
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Felicia Kawilarang - Traits of Early Employees
Many times, early employees don’t get the same name recognition as the founders. But their contributions are no less significant. Today I’m talking to Felicia Kawilarang, VP of Marketing and Communications for Halodoc. Felicia was the telemedicine app’s first senior marketing hire and has seen…
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Ritchie Goenawan - Scaling a Rocketship
In Season 1 of Sidedoor, I interviewed all founders. I love founder stories because they’re just different. But founders are not alone in this journey. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Founders need a strong team. What that team looks like will change over…
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Gita Sjahrir - Improving Health and Equality
The final guest of Season 1 is Gita Sjahrir. She’s the co-founder and CEO of R Fitness, a growing health and wellness startup, focused on helping improve the lives of all Indonesians. Our conversation transcends the R Fitness story. Gita is a polymath. You can tell that Gita is a deep thinker and...
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Pangeran Siahaan - Quality Media, Beyond Clicks
Today’s guest is Pangeran Siahaan, co-founder and CEO of Asumsi.co. Asumsi is a leading millennial media publication. Founded in 2017, the site has been bootstrapped until recently, when they raised a seed round from East Ventures. Bootstrapping a media company is a battle, getting any kind of...
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Ilya Kravtsov - Reinvention Amidst a Pandemic
Covid-19 has crushed businesses around the world. Especially those in the food, travel, and live events space. Today my guest is Ilya Kravtsov, co-founder and CEO of PouchNATION. PouchNATION is an event-based, crowd management, wearables company. They offer event-goers bands that track admission,...
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Melia Winata - Growing a Social Enterprise
Today's guest is Melia Winata, co-founder and CMO of Du Anyam. Du Anyam is a social enterprise that works with female communities to create wicker products. They were the official merchandise of the 2018 Asian Games and their products have won awards like the Inacraft Awards in 2018. Du Anyam is…
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Nicole Yap - Building a Tech Ecosystem
Today’s guest is Nicole Yap, the Managing Director of Digitaraya, a startup accelerator in Jakarta. Nicole has seen Indonesia’s entrepreneurial landscape change dramatically since she first visited Indonesia in 2013. Now, she’s part of the dedicated core that’s helping build out Indonesia’s tech...
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Tiger Fang - Lessons From High Growth Startups
From the outside, being a tech founder seems like a sexy job. But the reality is far different. It’s lonely and a constant struggle. Today my guest is Tiger Fang, co-founder and CEO of Kargo, a digital logistics company in Indonesia. Prior to Kargo, Tiger worked at e-commerce giant Lazada and…
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Indra Wiralaksmana - Building a Muslim Social Network
Across the globe, there are 1.7 billion Muslims, second only to Christianity at 2.3 billion. This represents a huge opportunity. Today's guest is Indra Wiralaksmana, co-founder and CEO of Umma. Umma is a Muslim community based platform. It's part social network, part content aggregator, but...
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William Tunggaldjaja - Competing with Ecommerce Goliaths
We live in a world where anything we want is one click away. Ecommerce has made this possible. No matter which part of the world you're in, there is an ecommerce giant dominating the market. In the US there is Amazon. In SE Asia, there is Lazada and Shopee. But ecommerce is much larger than a few...
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Charlotte Kowara - Finding Purpose
Aimlessly wandering might be fun during a post-graduation gap year. But for most everyone else, it leaves us wanting more. What drives us differs from person to person. Some want money, others fame, but Charlotte Kowara was looking for more. Despite having worked for some of the biggest companies...
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Dick Listijono: Seizing Opportunity
For some, the thought of going to their job brings a knot of anxiety to their stomach. Not everyone loves their job. A great deal of the time, despite not enjoying their work, people stay at their current jobs. No matter how much they dislike it. While others fantasize about their dream career,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Candid stories and lessons from startup founders, executives, and investors. The top founders, always have to find a side door in. Discover what founders have learned about resilience, growth, creativity, and innovation from their own personal journeys.
HOSTED BY
Jesse Bouman
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Candid stories and lessons from startup founders, executives, and investors. The top founders, always have to find a side door in. Discover what founders have learned about resilience, growth, creativity, and innovation from their own personal journeys.
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Sidedoor Podcast is created and hosted by Jesse Bouman.
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