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Hey STIMYers,
So April is turning out to be another hectic week, 2 interviews next week & 3 the following week! Yikes.
But it's a pretty fun lineup that includes:
Now onto this week's episode!
StashAway is one of the hottest platforms in the Southeast Asian region now so when the opportunity arose to interview Malaysia's country manager, I naturally took it!
Exploring how he went from working at Khazanah Nasional Berhad (a sovereign wealth fund that exposed him to, amongst others, the movie business) then investment banking. And finally, why Wai Ken decided to leave to take a chance on a 2-year-old startup called StashAway.
Highlights:
You can listen to Wai Ken's episode in full on: STIMY Website, Spotify, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Listen Notes
Looking for past STIMY guests in the content creation field? Check out:
1. Creative Juice: Creators investing in Creators!
The content economy continues to make huge waves although it's hardly a new thing. We've had Patreon, Discord, Roblox, and now... Creative Juice - which essentially aims to let creators invest in other creators via Creative Juice!
One of Creative Juice's first and most well-known investors is Mr Beast - who has 55 million YouTube subscribers - who will invest $2 million into up-and-coming YouTube creators. Where he will be cutting $25,000 to $250,000 cheques to qualifying & inspiring YouTube creators, in return for minority stacks in these YouTube channels.
Is this the future?
Links: The Information Article; Index Ventures
2. Podcast: Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad's Groundbreaking Equity Crowdfunding Raise
Remember how we talked about Sahil (founder of Gumroad) previously going onto Republic to let anyone and everyone invest up to $1,000 in his company, bypassing the tradition VC model? (If you missed it, you can read the previous STIMY newsletter here)
Happily, Jason Calacanis (one of the angel investors I enjoy following) decided to get Sahil onto his podcast, This Week in Startups, to spill the beans and chat about what it was like to raise his sought-after $5 million investment in... 12 hours! His difficult startup journey, thoughts on rolling funds and more.
One of my favourite podcast episodes of the week!
Links: This Week in Startups; On Sahil's Republic Venture
3. Feynman Learning Technique
The Feynman Learning Technique teaches how to learn in a more effective way that doesn't involve brute memorisation.
The steps are as follows:
(sometimes, engineers use a physical object line a rubber duck, and pretend that they're explaining to that rubber duck!)
Link: Feynman Learning Technique
4. New York Times Article on NFTs
NFTs are still all the rage. I suppose when you could potentially sell a digital file on blockchain for $600 million (i.e. Beeple) or digital cats for $600,00 (i.e. Nyancat), it does seem like anything is possible 😅
It's even spread into the news industry! TIMES has minted their article to offer as an NFT, and so has the New York Times with an article explaining the whole process of getting it done.
Here's how you can do it too:
Link: New York Times article
Upcoming STIMY Guests
And that's it for today. As always, all thoughts are welcome; just hit the REPLY button below.
See you all next week! 😊
Ling Yah
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