The One Percent Project- Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Resilience

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.