The One Percent Project- Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Resilience

About David Collect:My next guest on The One Percent Project is David Collet. He has been a sales executive in the sports and media industy for more than 20 years and worked with CNN, PERFORM, OPTA Sports across Asia and Europe.Our Conversation: We kick-off the conversation with him:Trying to define media in the 21st centuryThe next frontier in the media industryEvolution of gaming: Frontier Games, Epic Games, FortniteNetflix and it's challengerseSports and it's future in Asia 

About Rai Mahimapat Ray, “Ray”:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Rai Mahimatpat Ray. He is the District Magistrate, Collector & Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) - Government of India. A district magistrate is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who is the chief in charge of the administration and governance of a district in India. Ray is responsible for the well being and development of the 3.3M people living in Ranchi district, which has a diverse demographic spread across remote villages without developed roads or schools to upcoming cities where universities and businesses successfully thrive. Our Conversation:We kick this conversation off with Ray trying to understand the Indian Administrative Services, the progress, the challenges and the opportunities Indian have and how IAS officers like him are working to better the lives and mitigate the challenges an every day Indian faces. We also talk about the COVID situation in Ranchi and measures he has taken to keep the pandemic in control.All views are personal and don’t represent the views of Govt. of India or Govt. of Jharkhand.

About Aditi:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Aditi Sharma. She is the Head of Startup Programs & Investments at Grab Ventures. She has spent five years at McKinsey & Company post her M.B.A. from Indian School of Business in India. Our Conversation:In this conversation, Aditi talks about her journey from her entering college to Grab Ventures.The evolution of the Corporate Venture Space in Southeast AsiaHypothesis and framework behind building Grab VenturesThe impact of GOVID on businesses and trends that are emerging post the pandemic Who is the perfect founder for Grab Ventures?Super Apps and opportunitiesSoutheast Asian markets their evolution and the opportunities within themQuickfire Round:Favourite Book or Blog?The Knowledge ProjectIdea or Team?TeamGuy or Data?Data

About Karthik:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Karthik Prabhakar. He is the Executive Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures. Karthik is also a member of the Investment Committee of AngelHub. Karthik for three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018 was recognized as one among the 40 Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF. He is also recognized amongst the global top 100 Rising Stars in the venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing.Our Conversation:His learning as a Venture Capitalist.How he assesses early-stage startup ideas and team?Is branding important for early-stage startups?A new Indian consumer base that COVID has opened up for startups to tap into and sectors that will get a boost due to the pandemic How foreign entrants such as Amazon, TikTok and others were able to scale in a heterogeneous market such as India?Factors for Zoom's supremacy over all the other video conferencing products in the markets during the pandemicQuickfire Questions:Team or idea?TeamA book that has helped you think better personally as well as at work?One is a book by Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning. It's been a phenomenal book. And the second one is by Christensen "How Will You Measure Your Life?" One app that you would recommend everybody to use, or you use extensively?I'm invested in gaming and education companies. So I keep playing with these games a lot. I would recommend to check out WordTrek by Play Simple Games. Disclaimers Play Simple Games is one of our investments.

About Rui (Rey):My next guest on The One Percent Project is Rui (Rey) Ma. She is the Writer & Co-Host of The Tech Buzz China podcast. A  biweekly China tech podcast on unique insights & takeaways on China tech.She has over fifteen years of experience in investment banking and investing, spanning seed stage to pre-IPO investing, and spent eight of those years working across multiple industries including real estate and media as well as technology in Shanghai and Beijing. She is currently an angel investor and advisor to several startups and funds. Rui is also active in philanthropy and currently runs Rookie Fund, a nonprofit student venture fund network in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Our Conversation:The Chinese Tech ecosystem it's strengths and mythsWhat makes Chinese Tech businesses good at scalingHow the second generation of Chinese Tech startups such as ByteDance, Pingduoduo, Meituan and others are giving B.A.T: Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, a run for their moneyThe contrast between Western and Eastern Chinese consumer. How ByteDance’s initial traction came from the less Tech-savvy Chinese consumer Can Non-Chinese Tech businesses enter and scale in ChinaVenture investment appetite of Chinese Vs Silicon Valley investors

About Alfonso:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Alfonso Fiore, Head of Product AirAsia. Alfonso has an MSc in Computer Science and an MBA from London Business School. After a long career in telecommunications across Europe, he moved to Asia and started a new career in product management quickly raising through major Southeast Asian multinationals and now heads all packaged products at AirAsia.Our Conversation:In this conversation with Alfonso, talks about his journey of becoming a product head at AirAsia and discussesEvolution of Super Apps in Asia  The role of Brand and Trust play in product developmentAbout his entrepreneurial journey and how that experience helped him in becoming a better product managerWhy Google Maps is his most favourite product

About Amit:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Amit Agrawal, Founder, OckyPocky, and growth expert. OckyPocky is India’s 1st interactive English learning app for vernacular preschool kids. Amit head YouTube India and​ ​grew​ ​the​ ​business​ ​from​ ​scratch​ ​to $100​ ​million​ ​per annum​ revenue. Known​ ​as​ ​a​ ​thought​ ​leader​ ​in​ kid-tech, ​internet​ ​and​ ​online​ ​video​ ​space​, he has ​advised some​ ​of​ ​the​ ​biggest​ ​names​ ​in​ ​Indian​ ​industry, Silicon Valley and Asia.​ Our Conversation:In this conversation with Amit, we speak to him about the Indian consumer and discuss the evolution of EdTech and the growth of the Indian digital media in the last decade. How businesses are coping with the impact of COVID, economically and culturally.How you can create organic virality?IndiaWho is an Indian consumer? How to segment and analyse the 1.3 Billion Indian population? Growth strategies that EdTech products such as OckyPocky, UpGrade and Coursera have used in India?How Netflix, Amazon Prime and TikTok have entered and dominated the Indian market?YouTube: It’s challenges trying to compete against other nimble and younger social media video platforms.   QuickFire Questions:Favourite Book/ Blog:Magic of thinking bigHardest Thing about your jobEverything is determined by youWhat Do I Know Now That I Didn’t Know When I Started Speed is underrated

Our Conversation:In this conversation with Robert, we speak about the Chinese tech ecosystem evolution and the frameworks to succeed in China. Airbnb growth in China the initial trends and indicatorsChinese Vs Western consumers how their consumption and spending patterns differWhat made Goat decide to enter ChinaHow TikTok became a global sensationHow a late entrant Chinese tech startup Meituan Dianping emerged as a Superapp while competing against the Chinese tech giants: Alibaba, Tencent, BaiduChinese technology trends in the next 10 yearsAbout Robert:My very first guest on The One Percent Project is my ex-colleague, Robert Hao, Co-Founder & COO, HYPE Asia. HYPE is a venture builder that helps startups demystify, unlock, and succeed in Asia. Presently, Robert is heading the expansion of Goat into China. Goat is the world's largest sneakers marketplace.In 2012, he helped form the Asia landing team to expand Airbnb into the APAC region. From 2013-2017, Robert relocated to Beijing to start Airbnb China business, where he led Business Operations & Strategy and Host Community Operations and grew the China team to two hundred strong.