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Hsu Ken Ooi: from Rebellious Child to Chief Product Officer and Accelerating Southeast Asia's Startups - E8

2020/6/5
logo of podcast BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

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Hsu Ken Ooi) is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative). Iterative is a Y Combinator)-style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. In their latest batch, they chose the top 9 companies out of over 300 startup applicants. The domains range across proptech, fintech, direct to consumer and logistics. 

In 2009, he co-founded Decide.com) with Hsu Han Ooi), Brian Ma) and Ian Ma). Decide.com was an early machine learning company that predicted the future price of consumer goods. It raised over $16M total funding and was acquired by eBay) in 2013. Since then, his other tech executive roles include being the Chief Product Officer at Workmate), an on-demand blue collar staffing platform in Southeast Asia that has raised over $10M total funding. He was formerly VP of Product at Weave). Weave was a platform that delivered a personalized professional introduction every week and was part of the YC summer batch of 2014. 

Hsu Ken has a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Washington). His hobbies are books, cooking, and football. You can find him on Twitter at @hsukenooi).

You can find the show notes at https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/hsu-ken-ooi)

You can find our community discussions for this episode at https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/8-hsu-ken-ooi-co-founder-managing-partner-iterative)