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Australia

🤯 The Sushi Bay Scandal: 163 Workers Exploited

Nov 16, 2025

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17 min read

🤯 The Sushi Bay Scandal: 163 Workers Exploited

Inside the shocking legal battles, tax debts, and ethical failures that brought down one of Australia’s most popular sushi chains.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Singapore

🤯 The Rise and Fall of Twelve Cupcakes: Singapore’s Sweetest Failure

Nov 9, 2025

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17 min read

🤯 The Rise and Fall of Twelve Cupcakes: Singapore’s Sweetest Failure

From celebrity founders to courtroom fines — how a cupcake craze turned into one of Singapore’s most shocking F&B collapses.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Indonesia

🤯 Inside Gravel: When Founder Conflicts Killed a $14 Million Dream

Oct 26, 2025

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19 min read

🤯 Inside Gravel: When Founder Conflicts Killed a $14 Million Dream

What happens when two co-CEOs can’t agree — and burn cash faster than they build. The untold story of Indonesia’s construction tech rocketship that imploded mid-flight.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Australia

🤯 Inside Bonza’s Collapse: Why Australia’s New Airline Failed

Oct 19, 2025

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18 min read

🤯 Inside Bonza’s Collapse: Why Australia’s New Airline Failed

Australia’s first low-cost airline lit up the skies — then vanished overnight. Here’s the 2 mistakes that grounded it.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Singapore

🤯 How Style Theory went broke trying to rent luxury

Oct 12, 2025

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21 min read

🤯 How Style Theory went broke trying to rent luxury

A $25M startup with SoftBank money, 200K users, and infinite hype — until reality hit. Inside the shocking downfall of Asia’s biggest fashion rental app.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Podcast

🤯 How Replyr scaled to $180K ARR with ONE simple growth hack

Oct 5, 2025

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22 min read

🤯 How Replyr scaled to $180K ARR with ONE simple growth hack

AhBengGPT. NajibAI. SOHAI. The same playbook that went viral and funded Replyr.ai.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Singapore

🤯 Privé Group: A Homegrown F&B Star’s Rise and Fall

Sep 28, 2025

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23 min read

🤯 Privé Group: A Homegrown F&B Star’s Rise and Fall

Privé was everywhere in Singapore — prime spots, packed weekends, media buzz. Then? Gone. Here's why Privé failed (and what you can do differently).

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Singapore

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🤯 The Collapse You Didn’t See Coming: 1880

Sep 21, 2025

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21 min read

🤯 The Collapse You Didn’t See Coming: 1880

It was Singapore’s most vibrant private club. Then, one bold expansion in Hong Kong dragged it into debt, liquidation, and bankruptcy. Here’s how the dream unraveled.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

India

🤯 How Trell Went From $120M Dream To 94% Revenue Crash

Sep 15, 2025

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18 min read

🤯 How Trell Went From $120M Dream To 94% Revenue Crash

Fake growth. Unpaid creators. $120M dream gone.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Indonesia

🤯 The Rise and Brutal Fall of UangTeman

Sep 7, 2025

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20 min read

🤯 The Rise and Brutal Fall of UangTeman

“Most Trusted Fintech” → Bankruptcy → Prison

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
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