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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

Podcast

🤯 From $3M Mistake to 10,000 Users: The Comeback of Peek

Aug 24, 2025

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17 min read

🤯 From $3M Mistake to 10,000 Users: The Comeback of Peek

Imagine getting 10,000 users with $0 spent — here’s how Sherry did it.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Hong Kong

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🤯 Why China South City Collapsed Despite Government  Backing

Aug 17, 2025

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21 min read

🤯 Why China South City Collapsed Despite Government Backing

How China’s biggest trade city became ghost town #1

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Podcast

🤯 He Bootstrapped Remo from $0 to 8-Figures & Got Acquired

Aug 10, 2025

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17 min read

🤯 He Bootstrapped Remo from $0 to 8-Figures & Got Acquired

Here’s the playbook...

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Philippines

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🤯 How Oriente Burned $160M Trying to Bank the Unbanked

Aug 3, 2025

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20 min read

🤯 How Oriente Burned $160M Trying to Bank the Unbanked

Offline growth. Flashy GTM. Then COVID hit. Data breaches followed. Here’s how to not die the same way.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Hong Kong

🤯 $70M Burned. No Profits. HSBC Gave Up.

Jul 27, 2025

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18 min read

🤯 $70M Burned. No Profits. HSBC Gave Up.

Serai had everything — capital, connections, and 16k users... but still died broke. Here’s why Serai failed — and what every founder should learn.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Indonesia

🤯 From $37M to Zero: CoHive’s Shocking Collapse

Jul 20, 2025

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16 min read

🤯 From $37M to Zero: CoHive’s Shocking Collapse

The 2 fatal mistakes that killed Indonesia's top coworking space

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Podcast

🤯 How Prefer made beanless coffee that's 2x cheaper and 90% greener

Jul 13, 2025

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19 min read

🤯 How Prefer made beanless coffee that's 2x cheaper and 90% greener

And how they got 100% inbound sales with guerrilla marketing and hit $15M in B2B deals pipeline...

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

India

🤯 The $1.2B loan that killed BYJU'S

Jul 6, 2025

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23 min read

🤯 The $1.2B loan that killed BYJU'S

How BYJU'S went from $22B to $0 after spending $2.5B on acquisitions, taking $1.2B loan, and $533 million of the loan went missing...

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Malaysia

🤯 Why 1Fit’s unlimited gym model was doomed to fail

Jun 29, 2025

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3 min read

🤯 Why 1Fit’s unlimited gym model was doomed to fail

The math didn't add up...

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Vietnam

🤯 How Telio lost $1.4M/month at $3M/month revenue (and died)

Jun 22, 2025

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20 min read

🤯 How Telio lost $1.4M/month at $3M/month revenue (and died)

The brutal lesson behind Telio’s fall

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

China

🤯 The China’s Netflix of Sports Died

Jun 15, 2025

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18 min read

🤯 The China’s Netflix of Sports Died

How LeSports went from $3.5B to $0 (hijacked by its parent company politics)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Podcast

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

Jun 1, 2025

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16 min read

🤯 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

Singapore

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

May 25, 2025

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20 min read

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

$60B Crypto Scam, Exposed

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

India

🤯 The $31M fraud that killed BluSmart overnight

May 18, 2025

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20 min read

🤯 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

India

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

May 11, 2025

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18 min read

🤯 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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