Franco Varona
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Apr
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And then at the end of it, I think her last her last paragraph was about come do more business in Singapore.
And then her last line was like and
in the time that it took me to s tell you the speech, you could have registered a business in Singapore.
And it was like, oh my God, like that's mind blowing.
Because in the Philippines, you know, we ran a study with our portfolio companies and we're like, okay, what's the biggest blocker?
And they're like, well, just even simply registering a business, which takes up to forty-five days.
In the Philippines.
Forty five days.
Imagine that, right?
The the I mean th those forty five days is where businesses go to die.
Right.
So there's a lot of kind of blockers in in that way and a lot of things that kind of slow down um and a lot of frustration within our own portfolio as well.
That said, there has been a lot of movement recently to help with with all of these kind of initiatives.
One is that the govern government itself is starting to participate directly into startups.
That's a that's a first, right?
And that's only happened over the last couple of years.
There is an a long
passed called the Innovative Startup Act.
It was introduced by one of our current senators.
He's he's back in in Senate today.
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