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Get up close and personal with our four GoTo leaders as we delve into details of their first meetings and impressions of one another. Which leaders have known each other the longest? Who describes themselves as 'relentless'? And which of the four leaders believes in fengshui? Get to know Andre, Patrick, Kevin and William in this special first episode of GoTo New Beginnings: How It All Started.

We're starting off GoFigure Season Two with a heartfelt goodbye to one of our most beloved leaders at Gojek, Ajey Gore, former Gojek Group CTO. In this episode, Kevin Aluwi, Andre Soelistyo, and Ajey Gore talk about career advice for those who want to work at Gojek and share final insights with each other.

We're starting off GoFigure Season Two with a heartfelt goodbye to one of our most beloved leaders at Gojek, Ajey Gore, former Gojek Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this episode, Kevin Aluwi, Andre Soelistyo, and Ajey Gore talk about Gojek’s early days and what it means to be a CTO of Southeast Asia's leading technology group and a pioneer of the integrated super app and ecosystem model.

With great money comes great responsibility. In this episode, Nadiem is joined by Andre Soelstiyo (President of Gojek) and Thomas Husted (CFO Gojek) to discuss the realities surrounding the different stages of series seed funding. And find out how they essentially navigate through doing two full-time jobs simultaneously: running a company and raising money for that company.

The most beautiful product in the world won't be useful unless it has real, practical application to the user. Find out how Gojek combines science and art in the most inspirational and creative ways to create products whose functions benefit users.

Kunal Shah; Founder of CRED & Freecharge joins Nadiem Makarim in a no holds barred discussion. They share the brutal truth and the emotional cost about becoming a startup founder.

From friends to business partners. Nadiem, Aldi Haryopratomo, CEO of GoPay and Ryu Suliawan, Gojek's Head Of Merchants reminisce the founding days of Gojek, the setbacks they went through and how they inspired each other to never stop trying.

The role of a product manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the product.” But is the job really as glamorous as it sounds? Dian Rosanti, SVP of Product Management at GOJEK joins Nadiem and Kevin to bust the myths surrounding the role of a PM and talk about the realities of what makes an all star PM.

What does it mean to grow a business in the tech space and what are the common misconceptions and difficulties when it comes to scaling a company for growth? Crystal Widjaja, SVP Business Intelligence and Growth and Jasper Distel, Regional Brand and Media Lead joins Nadiem in a debate about spending as a means to attract new users.

Product market fit, pitfalls and scale. Niranjan Paranjape, CTO of GOJEK & Aakash Dharmadhikari, Head of Product Analytics joins Nadiem to recollect on how far the company has come. How did data contributed to the change of a company initially thought to only provide on-demand courier service for businesses into Indonesia’s No 1 SuperApp?

Ajey Gore, Group CTO and Sidu Ponnappa, Head of Global Talent Recruitment joins Nadiem to share their thoughts and opinions about why company leaders should spend time being in the trenches irrespective of their seniority. Listen as they debate about what and how company culture is shaped. Should it come from the top or through bottom-up innovation?

10x engineer is a concept used in the Silicon Valley describing an engineer that is 10x more productive than an average engineer. But do they really exist? Niranjan Paranjape, CTO at GOJEK and Sidu Ponnappa, Head of Global Tech Recruitment joins Nadiem in an insightful discussion about identifying great talent through an engineers coding and behavioural patterns.

Co-founders Nadiem and Kevin are back. Listen to the inner workings of their brains and how they envision GOJEK’s long term strategies through promoting cultural strategic thinking within the company. How can GOJEK’s internal strategic themes of FOCUS, INNOVATION and COMMUNICATION make a valuable contribution towards Indonesia’s tech startup scene?

In this episode, Andrew Brinson - SVP, Marketplace at GOJEK and Maneesh Mishra, VP of Data Science at GOJEK joins Nadiem Makarim - Founder of GOJEK to discuss black box models, supervised and unsupervised learnings, as well as how to predict better in the marketplace, using exabytes of data from all over the place. Get an almost full understanding of day to day applications of theories we read about in magazines and books, in a unicorn startup.

Does GOJEK have a gender diversity problem in the workplace? Nadiem speaks to Catherine Hindra - Chief Commercial Expansion at GOJEK and Aristiwidya Bramantika - GOJEK’s Senior Vice President of People and Culture to understand the challenges they face working in a male dominated industry especially in a patriarchal society like Indonesia.

Data driven or insight driven, the crossroads of product development and boots on the ground sees GOJEK learn more than they thought they knew. What do you get when GOJEK's COO and Head Of Product Development walks into a room with Nadiem in it? One hell of a discussion! Tune in and hear perspectives from two sides of the coin. Can machine and human operations really go hand in hand seamlessly? What are those mistakes to avoid when it comes features versus needs, and how does one juggle managing 1 Million Drivers in Indonesia?!!!

Gojek founders crack open a conversation no one would have expected to hear. Indonesia's favourite Unicorn discusses their mistakes and more. The debut of Nadiem's brain-child takes a different tune on the highlights and lowlights of 'unicorns' in Asia. This episode sees the founders discusses the development of entrepreneurs of startups, admitting to mistakes, and how they share different perspectives on failing, learning and structuring problems.