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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

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

Vietnam

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

Mar 10, 2025

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17 min read

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

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

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Vietnam

🏋🏻‍♀️ The business model that bankrupted WeFit

Jan 12, 2025

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16 min read

🏋🏻‍♀️ The business model that bankrupted WeFit

The more customers WeFit had, the more money it lost (the single membership that killed everything)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Vietnam

🏠 The founder's bad decisions killed a $33M proptech dream

Nov 24, 2024

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19 min read

🏠 The founder's bad decisions killed a $33M proptech dream

How Propzy's collapse shocked the entire real estate market of Vietnam

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Vietnam

🫡 The untold story behind Mio's strategic shutdown

Oct 13, 2024

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15 min read

🫡 The untold story behind Mio's strategic shutdown

Why Mio shut down despite having 1.5 years of runway (huge respect to the founders)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

Vietnam

🐤 This app was shut down because it was doing too well

May 19, 2024

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11 min read

🐤 This app was shut down because it was doing too well

Here's why the founder hated his own game (The Untold Story of Flappy Bird)

Admond Lee
Admond Lee

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