Timen is the founder at Lacàph, a fast-growing Vietnamese coffee brand, that is starting to export into new markets in Asia Pacific and around the world. Besides this he is a board member in companies in residential real estate development and

64 | Simon Torring, eCommerce in Southeast Asia

Sep 5th, 2023 42m

Simon Torring is the Co-founder of Cube Asia, a market insights company for online retail in Southeast Asia. Cube Asia helps brands, retail companies, and investors drive profitable growth by leveraging more recent, granular, and reliable data

63 | Johan Rozali-Wathooth, Investing with Impact

May 25th, 2023 56m 40s

Johan Rozali-Wathooth is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bintang Capital Partners. Bintang believes in the importance of deploying capital in an innovative, responsible and sustainable way, while still pursuing outsized risk-adjusted

63 | Johan Rozali-Wathooth, Investing with Impact

May 24th, 2023 2s

62 | Tim Bunting, The Kiwi Yamabushi

Apr 19th, 2023 44m 33s

Tim Bunting is a practising yamabushi from New Zealand, having moved to the Shonai region of Yamagata, Japan, in 2010. Describing a yamabushi is hard, because the only way to really understand what yamabushi are, is to become one yourself. But,

61 | Jorge Almazán, Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

Apr 6th, 2023 1h 14m

Jorge Almazán is a Tokyo-based architect and a researcher and an educator at the graduate Center for Space and Environment Design Engineering at Keio University, where he leads Studiolab, a university-based collaboration platform dedicated to d

60 | Adam Fulford, Regional Revitalization in Japan

Mar 22nd, 2023 55m 44s

Adam Fulford is the founder and CEO of Fulford Enterprises, which is a language services company. Fulford Enterprises works mainly in TV, providing translation, narration and other services to NHK and related companies. Adam is also active as a

59 | Brittany Garbutt, Pretzel and Doughing It Right

Mar 15th, 2023 58m 54s

Brittany Garbutt is the founder of Pretzel Australia. Pretzel has 11 stores across Australia, a business turnover of more than $5 million a year and over 300 staff. In addition to Pretzel, she’s also the founder of Voodoo Cafe, Voodoo Priestess

58 | Understanding Japan's Insane Bubble with Rei Saito

Mar 8th, 2023 38m 7s

In this conversation, we do deep dive into the bursting of Japan’s economic bubble in the ‘90s. Uncovering Japan's lost decade, the tragic tale of the economic bubble burst and its consequences Joining me for this deep dive is friend and prev

57 | Sarah Clarke, Journalism in Asia

Mar 1st, 2023 36m 54s

Sarah Clarke is an award-winning journalist, TV presenter and media facilitator now based in Australia. Sarah spent 8 years living and working in Hong Kong and is now a freelance correspondent with Al Jazeera English covering major stories a

56 | Erik from Rice Noodles, Taiwan and YouTube

Feb 23rd, 2023 2h 2m

Erik is the owner and creator of the Rice Noodles YouTube channel, where he shares everything Taiwan, from street food to normal food, culture, history and just general interesting and idiosyncratic things. In this long and fun conversation,

55 | Bukalapak Deep Dive with Aaron Pek

Feb 15th, 2023 35m 46s

In this conversation, we cover the business of Bukalapak, who they are, their valuation, and interestingly, the role of the Salim group in both Bukalapak and the wider ASEAN economy. Joining me to discuss and dive deep into Bukalapak’s busine

54 | Peter Douglas, Japanese Hospitality and Nozawa Onsen

Feb 8th, 2023 40m 7s

Peter Douglas is the senior executive of kk Nozawa Hospitality, a boutique provider of accommodation services in the unique mountain village of Nozawa Onsen. He is responsible for funding and financial strategy. In this super fun conversation,

53 | Michael McGaughy, Emerging Market Investing

Feb 1st, 2023 38m 18s

Michael McGaughy is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Research Alpha, a specialist fund which invests in the equity of unloved and out-of-favour quality companies in some of the world’s least expensive stock markets, like Uzbekistan, Argenti

52 | Yusno Yunos, The Genesis of Evenesis

Jan 25th, 2023 36m 8s

My guest today is Yusno Yunos, founder and CEO of Evenesis. Evenesis is a complete cloud-based end-to-end event management system that integrates event planners, participants and suppliers. In this conversation, we cover the events space, wh

51 | Bernard Leong, Analyse Asia

Jan 18th, 2023 57m 10s

My guest today is Bernard Leong (@bernardleong). Bernard is currently the group chief digital and information officer at a Singapore construction conglomerate. But also, is the founder of Analyse Asia, a weekly podcast on technology, business a

50 | ASML & EUV Lithography Deep Dive with Asianometry

Jan 16th, 2023 39m 19s

My guest today is Jon from Asianometry (@asianometry), creator of the hugely popular Asianometry YouTube channel where he posts video essays on business, economics, and history within Asia. In this conversation, we cover EUV Lithography, ASML,

49 | Sean Upton-McLaughlin, Building a Career in China

Jan 11th, 2023 45m 27s

My guest today is Sean Upton-McLaughlin (@SeanUM_China). Sean has spent over a decade working with Chinese companies throughout China, often in Chinese-only working environments, helping to improve their global marketing and communications. Now

48 | Rajeev Mantri, Venture Investing and India’s Economic Prospects

Jan 4th, 2023 41m 34s

My guest today is Rajeev Mantri (@RMantri). Rajeev is the founder and managing director of India-focused venture capital firm Navam Capital. Prior to founding Navam, Rajeev worked as a venture capital investor at New York-based Lux Capital, foc

47 | 2022 Compounding Curiosity Annual Review

Dec 31st, 2022 19m 21s

My 2022 recap! Talking about my big year of the podcast, the stats, some future guests, episodes, and the plans for the podcast going forward. Will be back to regularly scheduled guests from next week! Have some thoughts on the podcast and wa

46 | Raghav Kapoor, Disrupting Investment Research with Smartkarma

Dec 20th, 2022 41m 44s

My guest today is Raghav Kapoor (@Ragkap), CEO & Co-Founder at Smartkarma. As Smartkarma CEO, Raghav drives product strategy, oversees technology development, and maintains a hands-on approach with the company’s day-to-day operations. With Sm

45 | Callum Morton-Smith, Construction and Quantity Surveying in the Middle East

Dec 14th, 2022 53m 38s

My guest today is Callum Morton-Smith. Callum is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with experience in Perth, London, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. In today’s conversation, we go deep into the construction industry and Quantity Surveying in the Middle E

44 | Stephen Vines, Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship

Dec 7th, 2022 45m 10s

My guest today is Stephen Vines. Steve is a British journalist, writer, broadcaster and restaurateur, who was based in Hong Kong for over 30 years from 1987 to 2021. He is also the author of Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest

43 | Value Punks, Global Value Investing

Dec 1st, 2022 45m 50s

My guests today are Daye Deng and Balkar Sivia from Value Punks. Balkar has spent a decade investing globally, in the US, Indian, and other Emerging Markets. He is a CFA charterholder and has a degree in electrical engineering from Universit

42 | Eugene Y. Park, Korea: A History

Nov 23rd, 2022 34m 5s

My guest today is Eugene Park. Gene is a historian of East Asia, especially Korean politics and society since the 14th century. He is the Rick and Cathy Trachok Endowed Chair in International Studies and Professor in History at the University o