« Un grand homme? Je ne vois que le comédien de son propre idéal. » Friedrich Nietzsche

🔥 Monday 🔥 🌏 Monday, was the first-ever 52 degrees recorded in a heatwave in SEA. And that day, alongside 170+ investors interested to fund a new era in South East Asia, we wrote history by gathering nearly $1b in the room, from corporate venture capitals, family offices, and angel…

In his final major work, the novel Island (1962), the evils that Aldous Huxley had been warning the world about in his earlier works: over-population, coercive politics, militarism, mechanization, the destruction of the environment, and the worship of science find their opposites in the gentle, life-enhancing, yet doomed, Utopia of…

There is a lot going on lately about Thailand’s tech scene on Facebook. Some news last week that Bitkub got sanctioned by the SEC. Some news yesterday about SCB postponing & maybe re-evaluating the $1b deal announced last November with Bitkub. My truth My truth is that Topp has been hustling since…

Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next? The founder of macroeconomics predicted that capitalism would last for approximately 450 years. That’s the length of time between 1580, when Queen Elizabeth invested Spanish gold stolen by Francis Drake, and 2030, the year…

“What’s your valuation?” Perhaps you: Want to low-ball the founder so you can get a good deal? Save time by figuring out if founders have unreasonable expectations on valuation, so there is no point in talking more? That’s fine if you have well-defined logic, but I don’t think it makes…

“What’s your valuation?” Perhaps you: Want to low-ball the founder so you can get a good deal? Save time by figuring out if founders have unreasonable expectations on valuation, so there is no point in talking more? That’s fine if you have well defined logic, but I don’t think it…

1. If you can’t decide, the answer is no. There are an infinite number of promising investments out there. If it doesn’t feel right, pass. 2. Proprietary dealflow means ‘they want you’. Nobody thinks they have a shortage of dealflow, the hard problem is getting access to the best startups…

We are end of 2021, I left my apartment in Hong Kong in 2019 and have spent 2 years of pandemic in Thailand, alongside my lovely girlfriend to build something that I could call “home” for the first time over 10 years. …