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Welcome to the NinjaPear blog, where we will chronicle our journey in building the world's largest first-party B2B data platform.

I am not the CEO anymore

I am not the CEO anymore

With the Bitcoin crash of 2018, NuMoney was at the crossroads. Do we persist with the vision of building the largest cryptocurrency exchange for Southeast Asia, or do we move on? These were decisions I had to make as the CEO of NuMoney. Putra is the CEO of NuMoney Indonesia,

I hate startups

I hate startups

Paul Graham's definition of a startup is a company designed to grow fast. But I hate startups, where do I begin? Let's start with Crystal Horse Investments (a venture capital firm). Crystal Horse invested S$25,000 for equity in Spawt around seven years ago at

Once, I got a girl's number on the bus

Once, I got a girl's number on the bus

(She didn't turn out to be the one, this girl in the picture did) Back when I was 15, my delinquent friends and I would go to our favorite mall to "fish" for numbers from cute girls. It took guts and a thick skin. Usually, if

I was all for bootstrapping until I raised 500k
fundraising

I was all for bootstrapping until I raised 500k

(Picture above shows Putra, who is CEO of LandX, and I incorporating the company in Jakarta) I am bad at fund-raising. A backchannel source told me that I am uninvestable because I look like a person who will rip my investors off. Then I raised half a million dollars for

The database is corrupted, what do we do?

The database is corrupted, what do we do?

He came sheepishly to me and told me he corrupted our Postgresql database, what do we do now? Ok, time to backtrack. A while ago, we built Kloudsec, a CDN product with a vision of the CDN operating as an operating system on the edge, not unlike what Cloudflare is