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☠️ How my first startup failed after 1.5 years

☠️ How my first startup failed after 1.5 years

And what I've learned...

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndonesiaIndonesia
🐙 From $5M to Scandal: The Fall of Octopus

🐙 From $5M to Scandal: The Fall of Octopus

How Octopus went from waste management to fraud and harassment

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndonesiaIndonesia
🧑🏻‍🌾 The agri-party ended

🧑🏻‍🌾 The agri-party ended

How TaniHub went from farm-to-table to farm-to-failure (a $82.5M mistake)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
MalaysiaMalaysia
📉 How Fusionex went from $106M to $0

📉 How Fusionex went from $106M to $0

A stunning fall in Malaysia's tech history

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
MalaysiaMalaysia
👨🏻‍🔧 This $17.6M startup failed overnight

👨🏻‍🔧 This $17.6M startup failed overnight

How Kaodim collapsed from a successful startup story in Malaysia

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndonesiaIndonesia
🐟 The Dark Secrets Behind eFishery’s $1.4B Collapse

🐟 The Dark Secrets Behind eFishery’s $1.4B Collapse

How eFishery inflated its revenue 4.8x and went unnoticed for 6 years (until now)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

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🤯 The $1.5B Unicorn That Faked Its Way to Bankruptcy

🤯 The $1.5B Unicorn That Faked Its Way to Bankruptcy

How Builder.ai faked AI with 700 Indian engineers + inflated revenue (and got away with it for 9 years)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
PodcastPodcast
🤯 How Sourcy is building the world’s first Prompt-to-Product AI platform to solve a "boring" problem

🤯 How Sourcy is building the world’s first Prompt-to-Product AI platform to solve a "boring" problem

From maxed-out credit cards to $5M raised from global VCs

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
🤯 How Terraform Labs defrauded investors and wiped out the entire crypto market in 72 hours

🤯 How Terraform Labs defrauded investors and wiped out the entire crypto market in 72 hours

$60B Crypto Scam, Exposed

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndiaIndia
🤯 The $31M fraud that killed BluSmart overnight

🤯 The $31M fraud that killed BluSmart overnight

How BluSmart went from the biggest EV ride-hailing platform to the biggest financial scandal in India

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndiaIndia
🤯 The Silent Killer No One Told Log9 About (Until It Was Too Late)

🤯 The Silent Killer No One Told Log9 About (Until It Was Too Late)

Spoiler: Debt was just the finale. The real mistake started much earlier...

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
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🤯 How Smilie went from nearly dead to $100K/month

🤯 How Smilie went from nearly dead to $100K/month

The untold story of corporate gifting’s comeback

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndiaIndia
📉 The crypto party ended

📉 The crypto party ended

How WeTrade became WeCrash in just 14 months

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndiaIndia
🛵 RIP Dunzo

🛵 RIP Dunzo

You taught us how not to “Dunzo it”

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
ChinaChina
🚗 How eCarWash (e洗车) burned $20 million, created a fake demand, and crashed.

🚗 How eCarWash (e洗车) burned $20 million, created a fake demand, and crashed.

$20M → $0 (in 6 months)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
IndonesiaIndonesia
🥷🏻 Investree’s shocking downfall: fraud, scandals, and a missing CEO

🥷🏻 Investree’s shocking downfall: fraud, scandals, and a missing CEO

CEO Fled, Company Dead

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
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🚴🏼‍♂️ Overpromised, Underdelivered: Arevo’s Startup Meltdown

🚴🏼‍♂️ Overpromised, Underdelivered: Arevo’s Startup Meltdown

Arevo's $85M hype... down the drain

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
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🛍️ From e-commerce giant to defaulting $152M payments

🛍️ From e-commerce giant to defaulting $152M payments

How Qoo10 lost everything after acquiring too many companies

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
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