Founded in 2002, Bangkok-based Agoda was acquired five years later by Priceline. The site – with hotel reservations, reviews, and travel tips – is available in 37 languages and boasts the lowest prices at 170,000 hotels worldwide. Robert Rosenstein cofounded Agoda ten years ago, worked through growth and acquisition, and now leads the company as…
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Cardfed is a truly international company. It was started in Amsterdam after founder Ville Kulmala moved there from Finland and incorporated in Hong Kong. Kulmala now lives in Thailand, and his 8-person team is scattered about in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Helsinki. Kulmala tells me they have physically worked from 25 countries in the past…
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I’m chatting with Peach Rojwongsuriya at a Starbucks in a posh mall in Bangkok. Wearing a white Jimi Hendrix t-shirt, he’s chattering in great English about keeping his startup lean, Ruby, and the state of ecommerce in Thailand. But 23-year-old Rojwongsuriya wasn’t always an entrepreneur. He studied at an international primary school – which is…
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