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: 

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