Tag: Entrepreneurship

  • Tips from eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah on running a profitable start-up

    Tips from eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah on running a profitable start-up

    Indonesian Gibran Huzaifah Amsi El Farizy is no stranger to the start-up world. While he was still a college student, Farizy started his own fish-rearing business — and by the time he graduated in 2012, he was managing 76 ponds. Now at 33, Farizy runs Indonesia-based startup eFishery, which developed products such as automatic feeders…

  • Ex-Stripe exec wants staying power over huge growth

    Ex-Stripe exec wants staying power over huge growth

    GajiGesa’s Vidit Agrawal wanted to provide workers access to their wages as they earn it, between traditional end-of-month pay cycles. That gives workers much more liquidity and protects them from predatory lenders. GajiGesa Vidit Agrawal, co-founder of Indonesia-based startup GajiGesa, knows crazy growth is nice. But staying power is better. “Everyone is talking about profitability…