Evolving for the Next Billion
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Evolving for the Next Billion
Evolving for the Next Billion interviews local champions and global giants who are reshaping the lives of the next billion internet users. Hosted by Managing Partner Hans Tung
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Fireside with Tony Fadell: Follow Your Passion, not the Trends
Today's episode is a recording of a virtual fireside chat with Tony Fadell-iPod inventor, iPhone co-inventor, Nest founder, and now New York Times bes...
Live in NYC: How FinTech Leaders Build Moats in a Fragmented Market
Today's episode is a live recording of a panel discussion at GGV's 7th annual Evolving Economy conference in NYC last year. It is moderated by Hans, f...
Dani Grant of Jam: Finding Product-Market Fit Fast without Breaking Things
In this crossover episode between Evolving for the Next Billion and Founder Real Talk, co-hosted by Glenn Solomon, we chat with Dani Grant, the co-fou...
Emilie Choi of Coinbase: Why Crypto Winter is the Best Time to Build
It's not the first time we are in what the media called a "crypto winter". In the last crypto winter of 2018, Emilie, the guest of today's show, made...
Carolyn Childers of Chief: Building a Private Network for Powerful Women
To commemorate International Women's Day this year, we are thrilled to introduce a special series featuring some of the inspiring female founders in G...
(Bonus）Jenny Lee of GGV: Investing in BUD, Game Tech and NFT
Today we have a bonus episode in which GGV’s managing partner Jenny Lee shared why she invested in BUD, existing companies in her game tech portfolio,...
Episode 100: Hans on Web3, Investing at an unprecedented pace, ESG and Proudest Moments
In this episode, we asked Hans about his 2021, in which he shared his view on Web3, investing at an unprecedented pace, ESG, and the global capital ma...
Risa and Shawn of BUD: A Metaverse Created by and for Gen Z
Today on the show, we have the cofounders of BUD - Risa and Shawn. BUD is a global virtual platform for Gen Z and Gen Alpha to create and share 3D int...
Jixun Foo of GGV: 2021 is a year of dramatic changes
Happy New Year, everyone! For the 1st episode of 2022, we brought you the yearly reflection from our global managing partner Jixun Foo, in which he sh...
Dane Atkinson of Odeko: My Lifelong Mission in Empowering Small Businesses with Tech
Today on the show, we have Dane Atkinson, CEO, and Founder of Odeko. Odeko is a hidden platform supporting thousands of Coffee shops with the technolo...
Stefan Kalb of Shelf Engine: Combating Food Waste with Data Science
Today on the show we have Stephen Kalb. Stefan Kalb is the CEO and co-founder of Shelf Engine. Kalb co-founded Shelf Engine in 2016 to address the glo...
Timo and Andre of Next Gen Foods: Blitzscaling Plant-based Chicken from Inception to Global Brand in 2 years
Today on the show we have Timo Recker and Andre Menezes, co-founders of Next Gen Foods, a Singapore-based food tech company that's harnessing the powe...
Fabian Gomez of Frubana: the Everything Store for Restaurants in LatAm
Today on the show we have Fabián Gómez Gutiérrez, CEO and Founder of Frubana. Frubana is a one-stop operating platform for restaurants – with B2B ecom...
Le Hong Minh of VNG: Rising above Global Giants as Vietnam’s Homegrown Startup
Today on the show, we have le Hong Minh, founder and CEO of VNG. VNG is one of the largest internet companies in Vietnam, founded in 2004, VNG began a...
Irving Fain of Bowery: How I Became a Modern Farmer
Today on the show we have Irving Fain. Irving is the founder & CEO of Bowery Farming, the largest vertical farming company in the US. Based in New Yor...
Grab’s Super App Playbook
Today’s episode is a rerun of our conversation with Grab’ President Ming almost 2 years ago. If you have been following the news, you probably know th...
Binny Bansal: Inside the Success of Flipkart
Today on the show we have Binny Bansal. Binny cofounded Flipkart in 2007 and played a pivotal role in scaling it to a market leading e-commerce space...
Sonny & Christy of Arevo: from MIT Labs to Print Farms in Vietnam
Today we have our first ever husband and wife duos on the show, Sonny Vu and Christy Trang Le from Arevo. Arevo develops technology to enable direct d...
Allon Bloch of K Health: Reimagining Primary Care with AI
Today on the show, we have Allon Bloch, CEO and co-founder of K Health.
K Health is America's number one most downloaded medical app wi...
Max Levchin of Affirm: Why I Built Affirm after PayPal
Today's episode was recorded back in 2019, way before Affirm became a 27 billion dollar public company, and the BNPL (that is buy now pay later) won o...
Jim Miller of Wayfair: Turning Profitable during COVID-19 | Evolving Ecommerce Ep.3
Today on the show, we have Jim Miller, CTO of Wayfair. Wayfair is one of the world's largest e-commerce companies that sells furniture and home-goods....
Bonus:Jenny Lee of GGV on Raising $2.52 billion over 250 Zoom Calls
The conversation was recorded at the end of 2020. We sit down with GGV Capital managing partner Jenny to get her take on memorable moments, new habits...
Josh Silverman of Etsy: Every job I've had was a job nobody else wanted | Evolving Ecommerce Ep.2
Today on the show, we have Josh Silverman, CEO of Etsy since 2017. Etsy is an innovative online marketplace that connects millions of passionate creat...
Becoming Shopify | Evolving eCommerce ep.1
Today on the show, we have Harley Finkelstein, the President of Shopify. Shopify is a leading global e-commerce company, providing trusted tools to st...
Hans Tung of GGV: The Unbelievable 2020
For our last episode in this special year, we bring you Hans's perspective on 2020. To our listeners across the world, thank you for being with us. We...
Jixun Foo of GGV: A Year of Turning Points
2020 will be one for the history books. In this 3-part series, we sit down with GGV Capital's managing partners to get their take on memorable moments...
Son Tran of Tiki: a Decade of Entrepreneurship in Vietnam
Today on the show, we have Son Tran, founder, and CEO of Tiki. Tiki (short for "Tìm kiếm & Tiết kiệm", which means "Search & Save") is a top all-in-on...
Jenny Lee of GGV: Why EdTech is not a Winners Take All Sector
For the last episode of our EdTech series, we have GGV managing partner Jenny Lee. Jenny has been investing in the space for almost a decade now. So w...
Creating New Categories in a Crowded Market | EdTech Series 3 ft. Huohua Siwei (Spark Education)
Today on the show we have Mark Luo. Mark Luo is the founder and CEO of Huohua Siwei (Spark Education). It is a learning app that develops logical thin...
Radically Improving Science Education | EdTech Series 2 ft. Labster
Making learning fun is hard, especially in this day and age where you have to compete with social media and games for students' attention. What's even...
Making Freemium Work | EdTech Series 1 ft. China's Top Learning App Zuoyebang
For the first episode of our EdTech series, you will be hearing from the founder of Zuoyebang Hou Jianbin, whose personal belief about education signi...
Special Series on EdTech | Teaser
2020 is a defining year for many of us. This is a year when 85% of the countries in the world mandated school closure, leaving 1.5 billion students ou...
Peter De Caluwe of Thunes: Building a Cross-Border Payments Network for Emerging Markets
Today on the show, we have Peter De Caluwe, the Executive Chairman and CEO of Thunes. Thunes is a B2B cross-border payments network for emerging marke...
Siddharth Shah of PharmEasy on Disrupting the Healthcare Business in India
Interviewed by Hans Tung and Madhu Yalamarthi.
On today's episode, we have Siddharth Shah, co-founder and CEO of PharmEasy, India's lar...
Hendra Kwik of Payfazz: Empowering the Unbanked in Indonesia
This episode is co-hosted by GGV Colleague Dimitra Taslim. It was recorded a while back, so we also caught up with Hendra for an covid update in the s...
Live in Jakarta: Founders Q&A with Hans Tung
Today's episode is a recording of a founders' dinner we hosted in Jakarta last year. In a short Q&A part of the night, Hans answered a wide range of q...
Agung of Warung Pintar: How Covid-19 made mom-and-pop shops in Indonesia more open to technology
If you have followed our show close enough, you probably know that we have a thesis around backing startups that help small retailers to do better. Be...
Bonus Episode: Hans Tung on Emerging Trends, FoodTech and Advice for his Younger Self
Today's episode originally aired on our previous guest Garry Tan's YouTube Channel. Garry turned the table and interviewed Hans on being a global inve...
George and Gaery of Tiket.com: Why We Remain Optimistic for the Travel Industry
This episode is co-hosted by GGV Colleague Dimitra Taslim. It was recorded a while back, so we also caught up with George and Gaery for an covid updat...
Garry Tan of Initialized: Saying No to Peter Thiel, Engineer turned Investors, and Betting Against Big Tech
Today on the show we have Garry Tan, the managing partner of Initialized Capital, a venture firm based in San Francisco he started with the Reddit Co-...