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🤯 Learning Loop & an SF move that came a bit too late
Jan 18, 2026

🤯 Learning Loop & an SF move that came a bit too late

How staying outside the core San Francisco ecosystem created a fundraising deadlock that simply could not be bootstrapped.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
🤯 CXA’s Rise and Fall: Why a $58M Asian Insurtech Startup Failed
Jan 11, 2026

🤯 CXA’s Rise and Fall: Why a $58M Asian Insurtech Startup Failed

How running two businesses quietly pushed CXA to shut down just before break-even

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
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🤯 The Fall of Zipmex: How a ā€œSafeā€ Crypto Exchange Collapsed
Nov 30, 2025

🤯 The Fall of Zipmex: How a ā€œSafeā€ Crypto Exchange Collapsed

Inside the $53M mistake, broken trust, and the hard lessons every founder should learn.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
🤯 The Rise and Fall of Twelve Cupcakes: Singapore’s Sweetest Failure
Nov 09, 2025

🤯 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
SingaporeSingapore
🤯 How Style Theory went broke trying to rent luxury
Oct 12, 2025

🤯 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
SingaporeSingapore
🤯 Privé Group: A Homegrown F&B Star’s Rise and Fall
Sep 28, 2025

🤯 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
SingaporeSingapore
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🤯 The Collapse You Didn’t See Coming: 1880
Sep 21, 2025

🤯 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
SingaporeSingapore
🤯 How Terraform Labs defrauded investors and wiped out the entire crypto market in 72 hours
May 25, 2025

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

$60B Crypto Scam, Exposed

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
+1+1
šŸ›ļø From e-commerce giant to defaulting $152M payments
Mar 02, 2025

šŸ›ļø From e-commerce giant to defaulting $152M payments

How Qoo10 lost everything after acquiring too many companies

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
🄬 Singapore's farming dream ended
Jan 05, 2025

🄬 Singapore's farming dream ended

How I.F.F.I went from mega farm to mega failure (a S$39.4M mistake)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
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🤫 EXCLUSIVE: I interviewed this founder
Aug 18, 2024

🤫 EXCLUSIVE: I interviewed this founder

How Commune died of suicide, not murder (the founder's painful truth)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
SingaporeSingapore
šŸ“ŗ The Netflix for Southeast Asia died
Aug 04, 2024

šŸ“ŗ The Netflix for Southeast Asia died

How Hooq went from 80M to 0 subscribers (a $95M mistake)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
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