There’s a specific kind of meeting I used to dread in the early years of building Ngital. You’ve prepared everything. You’ve built the presentation carefully. You’ve researched the client’s industry. You walk in, and within the first 10 minutes, you realise the person across the table has already decided what they want, and what they […] The post What building Bangladesh’s agency actually looks like from the inside – Part 1 appeared first on e27.

Gold has been a store of wealth across Asia for generations, yet access through traditional financial markets still carries familiar friction. Investors often need dedicated brokerage accounts, fixed trading windows and capital separated from money held elsewhere. What is changing is not what Asian investors want to own. It is how they access it. A […] The post Asian investors aren’t choosing between crypto and TradFi anymore appeared first on e27.

A startup doubles its headcount. It opens a new sales channel. It ships a second product line. All of this happens while the business is still running on a spreadsheet, a half-built dashboard, or a weekly gut-check meeting. Nobody notices the gap at first, growth feels like growth. Then, three months in, someone on the […] The post Startups keep scaling ops before they scale data — Here’s why it backfires appeared first on e27.

For centuries, doctors have treated patients without having immediate access to an encyclopaedia of medical knowledge. A physician examining a patient did not need to read every medical textbook before deciding what to do. They observed symptoms, considered the patient’s history, recognised patterns, weighed possibilities and drew on years of experience. They did not know […] The post The future of healthcare AI isn’t more data. It’s better context appeared first on e27.

Every growing company eventually builds a ritual around checking in on itself. Daily standups, weekly syncs, status calls stacked on status calls, all in the name of staying aligned. At some point, that ritual stops serving the work because the team starts doing the check-in instead of doing the actual work. Fixing it meant asking […] The post How I rebuilt my company’s meeting culture after realising we were drowning in status updates appeared first on e27.

For years, one question has dominated the conversation around artificial intelligence: How many jobs will AI replace? After working with enterprises in Southeast Asia to deploy AI into real business processes, I increasingly think we are asking the wrong question. The more important question is: How much more can an organisation accomplish when AI becomes […] The post AI won’t just replace jobs. It will redesign how companies work appeared first on e27.

Toey Wattana Mongkhonnam began thinking about outfitting his family home in Thailand’s northeastern province of Yasothon with solar panels during the Covid-19 pandemic. In his household of five, electricity use rises with the day’s heat, and the monthly bill could range from 1,000 baht to 1,500 baht (US$30 to US$45). “Back then, I checked prices and a rooftop panel system that could put out enough power to run my household’s appliances could cost 100,000 baht to 200,000 baht,” said Toey, a Muay...

The next portfolio concentration problem may not come from investors staying too close to home, but from millions of investors becoming familiar with the same handful of global companies. For decades, one of the most persistent puzzles in investing has been home bias. Investors have traditionally tended to allocate disproportionately to companies and assets from […] The post Reverse home bias: Why Southeast Asia’s digital investors may be diversifying in the wrong direction appeared first on e27.

While starting salaries for fresh graduates and entry-level workers in Singapore continue to creep upwards, the number of people in entry-level roles is shrinking, according to new data, indicating an increasingly tough job market for those at the start of their careers. Data published last month by global professional services firm Aon showed a 2.5 per cent year-on-year salary increase for entry-level employees, alongside a 3.2 per cent drop in entry-level headcount. The findings come as...

Inside a car wash lounge in the southern Philippine city of Davao, Shenilane Formento scrolls through messages on her Chinese-made Oppo phone as she waits for a customer to pay. Formento, 29, has worked as a cashier for about a year. She follows developments in the South China Sea through news reports shared on her social media feeds, including frequent confrontations between Philippine and Chinese forces in the disputed waters. While she found such incidents “disappointing”, she ultimately...