The Asia Tech Podcast recorded a heartwarming conversation with Nadia Ismadi, a Co-founder and the CEO at Pod. Pod is a financial well-being platform to help users reach their financial goals by using technology and basic financial products.

Some topics Nadia and I discussed:

Nadia’s glimpse of entrepreneurship through her grandfather
The importance of using a customer-centric strategy
Why did Nadia leave a big company to pursue Pod?
The challenges and lessons learnt building Pod
Some of the financial barriers Pod is trying to solve
A new way to look at credit analysis
Understanding consumer patterns and getting feedback
Having pillars you want to focus on and build everything else around that

Some other titles we considered for this episode:

I Just Wanted to Learn
I Would Rather Crash and Burn, Rather Than Wonder
I Am Not Responsible for Anyone Else but Myself
You Don’t Have to Internalise Everything
Taking All the Candies

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