Anthony Chow

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · Anthony Chow: From Airbnb Hustle to Global Smart Locks, COVID Pivot & the Rise of the Rental Economy – E676 · 8 Mar 2026 podcast

So the solution that we created was not just the lock itself, but also the entire software suite.

So we were creating, we were writing scripts to connect to Airbnb so that we can, you know, once somebody makes a reservation, we can automate a check-in process for the gets to check in.

So it became like a self-check-in solution that we were pitching to Airbnb.

and the lock was just one piece of it.

And because of the razor focus of on this market, one of the unique things that we're designing into our locks is that it has to be a non-connected smart lock.

What does it mean?

So the thing that we learned was that when you actually design a smart lock for an Airbnb property, a lot of times this property because of vacation, many of them might be on the mountains, by the beach, or like in the basement.

Actually, if you go to UK, a lot of the Airbnbs are in the basement, right?

Or the house, many times the Wi-Fi doesn't actually hit the door.

So if you bought like a regular smart lock, right, that is Wi-Fi connected or Z-Wave connected, a lot of times when you want to set

The code for the lock for a temporary code for guests to check in, the Wi-Fi might not hit the lock.

It might not work.

And when a guest walks up to the door, they punch in a code, and because of Murphy's lock, most likely it's just not gonna work.

And in our initial first couple of hundred locks that we shipped out to Airbnb hosts, honestly, more than half of them didn't work just because of Wi-Fi problems.

So we had to recall some of these products, and it was not really our problem.

It was just really that just Wi-Fi is a luxury.

It doesn't exist in many of these properties.

So what we needed to do was to then go back to the drawing board and say how do we make a smart non-connected log, right?

For this market.

And the way we went around doing it is that we have this those banking token technologies where you can create one time password like the Google Authenticator system.

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