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Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind Southeast Asia’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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How to Build a Company Outside of Silicon Valley

It's really hard to just build a company outside of Silicon Valley. And it was even harder back then, like the COVID and remote work almost made it the easiest it's ever been. I think we talked a lot about being scrappy. In the beginning, you know, we were a lot more ops heavy than tech heavy and doing the things that don't scale through other means. Another thing I would say is you need to get good at remote work really early. You know, for us, we build an engineering center in Bangalore in 2015. This allowed us to compete a lot better with the global giants because we had access to a really deep talent market in India at the time

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