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williswee

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Founder at Tech in Asia (techinasia.com). YC Badge: 0xd78564568d0e4c5214d11506e2bca6123cbbe4ec

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www.techinasia.com 1y ago

Alibaba unveils AI model to detect stomach cancer early

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www.techinasia.com 1y ago

Indeed CEO resigns after major growth to focus on AI ethics

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Behind DeepSeek YC Decoded [video]

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www.techinasia.com 1y ago

SpaceX Launches Singapore Office

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BYD surpasses Tesla in Q3 earnings

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www.techinasia.com 2y ago

Staff departures, write-offs at Temasek startups uncover deeper issues

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www.techinasia.com 2y ago

Indonesia's Jokowi bans direct transactions on social media

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What to do when product growth stalls

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www.techinasia.com 3y ago

Jollibee billionaires launch online stock trading platform

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www.techinasia.com 3y ago

Why I’m giving up on education in Singapore

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www.techinasia.com 4y ago

Nigerian fintech firm eyes Asia after $105 raise

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www.techinasia.com 4y ago

Temasek-founded Aicadium acquires Singapore AI firm

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www.paulgraham.com 4y ago

Mean People Fail

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www.techinasia.com 4y ago

Pinduoduo swings to a net profit of $372m in Q2 2021

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

Read the Resignation Letter of ByteDance's CEO Zhang Yiming

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

SoftBank invests $60m in Malaysian AI firm for a 23% stake

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

I was interviewed for a job by a robot. Here’s how it went

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

E-Scootering to Profitability

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

The Alibaba Story: Crocodile in the Yangtze

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

When journalists try to take down startups

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

Investors pledge $815m for Vietnamese startups

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

What we learned at Ovo on how to stay afloat in a post-pandemic world

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

The Singles’ Day black hole

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

As Southeast Asia enters a golden age, here are the key opportunities

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

A decade down, Gojek looks towards a path to profitability

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

Sequoia India leads $55m round in lender Finova Capital

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

Singapore startup develops 60-second Covid-19 breath test

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

For our loved ones who are never mentioned in our pitch decks

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

Twitter's early backer Tim Draper invests in India's Unocoin

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www.techinasia.com 5y ago

Why are Pinduoduo and Alibaba selling fruits?

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I do. As founder of Tech in Asia, I admit I struggled a little initially because I kept thinking about money. But as time passes, I learned that there are things much more important than money. Don't get me wrong, I still think $ is important, I do want to be rich (who doesn't?). But money isn't as important as building a company with great culture, values and mission that is worth pursuing.

Life is too short to chase for money. Enough is good, more is better. Live within your means. I don't crave for a luxurious life. Money is an item to allow us (the company) to keep doing what we love doing. Valuation is a measure of how much the company has grown but I'm not obsessed with it. I rather spend my time being happy. Building a company with good culture, values and worthy mission makes me happy. If you're interested, our culture code can be found here: https://www.techinasia.com/culture/ :)

Hi Anand you're right that 2 of our analytics layouts share a very similar aesthetic to those on CBI. On behalf of myself personally and on behalf of Tech in Asia and the Techlist team, I apologize.

We're doing a lot of work to make sure Techlist is unique behind the scenes, and of course the data we're pulling into our site is unique and Asia-focused, but we definitely made a mistake in taking too much from CBI's visual design. It was a shortcut, and one that we shouldn't have taken, as it does a disservice to you, to Tech in Asia, and to our customers. There's really no excuse; we should have put more time into coming up with our own visuals.

In the immediate future we will be working on finding a more unique aesthetic framework within which to present our data.

Note: I'm the CEO of Tech in Asia that runs Techlist.