Essay
Most Southeast Asian Businesses Aren’t Built for Venture Capital
The founders who win aren’t the ones who raise the biggest checks—they’re the ones who know exactly what game they’re playing and have the courage to run it on their own terms.
Essay
Japan's Patient Revolution in Startup Collaboration
Japan's startup ecosystem is learning to innovate the way Japan has always excelled: through discipline, precision, and the patient accumulation of small improvements that compound into transformation.
Culture
Scarcity Is a Feature, Not a Flaw
Scarcity doesn’t hold Southeast Asian founders back—it sharpens their edge. In Manila’s pressure cooker, ambition thrives where patient capital is rare, challenging Silicon Valley’s playbook with hard-won resilience.
Culture
The Taste Gap: Tech Makes Creative Work Forgettable
Technology makes content creation effortless, but widens the taste gap between what we produce and what truly matters. Excellence requires craft.
Southeast Asia
Why Entrepreneurship Education Is Southeast Asia’s Most Strategic—And Most Overlooked—Ecosystem Lever
Southeast Asia's future will be scripted by young builders who learn to navigate uncertainty, build from scratch, and iterate through failure. The organizations teaching them how to do that, at scale, are the region's most undervalued backbone.
Culture
Why Southeast Asia Is Quietly Rejecting Hustle Culture
Burned out but not broken, Southeast Asia is rewriting the rules of work and tech—on its own terms.