EP 161 - Liat Beng Neo - co-Founder at Arrow - Creating a Better Checkout Experience

Asia Tech Podcast had an interesting conversation with Liat Beng Neo, a co-Founder at Arrow.  Arrow is fundamentally trying to simplify the checkout experience to just one tap.

Some of the topics we covered with Neo included:

• How he initially got involved in the payments space before it was 'a thing'
• Cash on delivery used to dominate online transactions
• Working at some of Asia's most iconic startups and tech companies
• Some of the interesting cultural differences between LAzada, AliBaba, TenCent, and Grab
• The evolution of the payments space and the increased number of options today
• The complexity that all of these options create for online commerce
• The difficulty and beauty of being a first-time founder
• The genesis of Arrow and what it is trying to accomplish

Some other titles we considered for this episode:

1. Payment Paralysis
2. The Whole Concept of Checkout Is Becoming More Complicated