Jes Kaliebe Petersen

entrepreneur. tech and emerging markets. former ceo @Phandeeyar - Myanmar Innovation Lab. co-founded Paywast, Afghanistan's largest social network.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

During the mass adoption of the www, no one cared about what a "HTTP" was, they just cared about visiting websites. User experience above all. Awareness of "NFTs" (the tech) should never be the goal for adoption. The experience is what wins in the long run.

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Largely agree with this - but important question is, if hot air is leaving markets, what will remain? Builders will remain, and there's always room for tech that delivers value. Some of best tech cos built during downturns

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

An entire generation of entrepreneurs & tech investors built their entire perspectives on valuation during the second half of a 13-year amazing bull market run. The "unlearning" process could be painful, surprising, & unsettling to many. I anticipate denial. Some thoughts:

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

@levelsio The French do a great job at this. All the Alliance Francaise centres I’ve seen are 🔥. @AFBKK great example

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Don’t document your goals (and make them transparent), and you might as well not have any. Too many orgs and businesses fail in this.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

The worst product and engineering directors/executives I’ve worked with or observed shared this one thing:

They refused to write their strategy and goals down and share it.

Instead, they kept changing it on the go. Not writing down was a strategy to avoid accountability.

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Important reminder to myself an everybody running or thinking about setting up an org or a biz

[jess lozano schmitt @JessLozanoS]

3 duties of a CEO:

1. Set the vision
2. Hire well
3. Don’t run out of money

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

This is so true for entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia. Tons of opportunities to disrupt!

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

You don't need a flashy new idea to build a business.

Go find:

- Antiquated industries
- Slow companies
- Poor service

Use technology to do a better job and you'll likely start chipping away.

A much easier lens to view entrepreneurship through.

[Ryan Breslow @ryanbreslow]

How to run a company (in priority order):

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

This is excellent, and can enable young folks anywhere to test their ideas and build new things. I'm in!

Anybody - particularly in/around South East Asia - with projects that need $$$ or who would like to donate, see below:

[Garrett Scott 🕳 @thegarrettscott]

Have been experimenting with giving ambitious kids money to just build cool stuff, calling it “tiny grants”. I held a contest on TikTok and Venmo’d $200 to this kid who used it to build a 5ft rocket with on-board camera.

I think we can scale this model up, here’s how:

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

"...PromptPay is working. The service surpassed 56 million users in April 2021 in a country of 70 million"

Fascinating stats on unique Thai fintech ecosystem which bypassed the interoperability challenges seen in other mrkts. Great piece by @jonrussell https://t.co/Ji0B17b3p4

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

Myanmar borders on nearly half the world's population. The borders are porous. Covid in Myanmar is now out of control. A failed state can't bring Covid under control. New Myanmar Covid variants could threaten the world. Global cooperation to help Myanmar is more urgent than ever.

[Fanny Potkin @f_potkin]

Absolutely heartbreaking to hear across all sectors the #s of Myanmar young entrepreneurs/students/activists etc who are now jobless or had liquidate projects/startups which were thriving until February...as a a friend put it "For Myanmar youths, feels like all dreams are dead"

[Helene Storm @DKAmbMyanmar]

Are you a 🇲🇲 SME owner & wish to promote responsible business, don’t miss this chance to apply for grant from 🇩🇰’s ⁦⁦@BusinessRbf⁩ 🇩🇰 has provided 14.6 bil MMK worth of grants to >450 SMEs since 2018. Please share! ⁦@DanishMFA⁩ https://t.co/YxH3J7H7EU

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Listen to Missing America - @brhodes' terrific new podcast on some of the most pressing issues facing democracy right now. In this episode, I joined to talk about some of the stuff that’s been happening on social media in Myanmar in recent years.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

What Facebook does to democracy and how to prevent disinformation from spreading - with Jake Sullivan, @MarietjeSchaake @kaliebe @pyduan @SaijaiLiang @GrahamBrookie and more. https://t.co/nGYXz1ABWq

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Excited that @Phandeeyar is in Fiji, Samoa and Papua New Guinea! If you are too, and you’re running a tech startup, register to the Startup Challenge Pacific Islands, and get support to accelerate your business!

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Are we experiencing Myanmar’s 2nd Digital Moment? I wrote an op-ed in Myanmar Times trying to find out https://t.co/F9t4Pjsbxl

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Hey Pandas!

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

This is the 4th Myanmar Digital Rights Forum. Bigger and more important than ever. Critical that digital stakeholders collectively get behind stronger digital rights #mdrf2020

[Yan @yanoak]

.@kaliebe kicks off #MDRF2020. Can’t believe it’s been 4 years! This year’s is the largest we’ve had with 350 participants. #digitalrightsMM

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Follow @digitalrightsMM for updates from the 2020 Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon. #mdrf2020

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

It’s time for the 2020 Myanmar Digital Rights Forum! Swedish Ambassador @StaffHerrst doing keynote. #mdrf2020

[Jes Kaliebe Petersen @kaliebe]

Mandalay has a quickly growing tech community and lots of opportunities for digital transformation. In the business challenge, 150 entrepreneurs and SME owners come together to create and validate digital business models.