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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)
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How did Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbows End” predict today’s accelerating tech change?
Once you're a partner, the pressure still comes from other partners who are more senior, from senior partners, even when you're a senior partner, from other senior partners who are even more senior. And then in the end, if the partner isn't the one, then they're still the client. So in the end it never really changes, right? You're always on constant alert because even as a senior partner, if your phone rings on a Saturday evening at 10 PM and it's your CEO client, you're gonna pick up.
Welcome to Brave. Learn from Southeast Asia's best tech leaders. Build the future, learn from our past, and stay human in between. No BS on Success. I'm Jeremy O, venture capitalist, Sarah founder, Harvard MBA, science fiction nerd, and dad of two daughters. Every week, we debate startup news, interview change makers, answer listener questions, and share personal insights. Join our movement of over 40,000 members and get transcripts, resources, and community at www.bravesa.com. Stay well and stay brave. Hey Philip, excited to have you on the show.
Jeremy, it's a pleasure. It's been a while.
Yeah. Um, could you introduce yourself?
Sure. Uh I'm Philip Vart Phil, originally German, grew up in China and Singapore. Nowadays uh live in Southeast Asia, have been there for three years, built a company called Tiger Brands, together with my co-founder Tim Michael. We originally started out as a house of brands focusing on a few different things and have for the last two years been focusing on building up the leading pet supplies ecosystem. for the region. Our main brand is called Doctor Shiba, focused on dog supplies. We also have a cat brand called Professor Bengal and initially launched in the Philippines. Nowadays also available in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia. And very recently launched in the UK and uh that's my main gig. Fantastic.
So, you know, let's go back to the beginning. What was your childhood like?
Uh I think it was a fairly uncommon one to be honest. So I mentioned earlier that I am German. Uh both my parents are German, but they met in uh China in the early eighties. They were both working for a German NGO. Doing development aid, both in the education sector. My dad was working on uh development aid for teachers education together with the Chinese government. And my mother was actually a German teacher for uh Chinese university students in Hangzhou and they met back then in I think eighty three. And yeah, that's kind of how I came about. So for me that meant I I was born in Germany. I was born in Munich, but when I was less than a year old, my parents decided to move us back to Shanghai and I spent the first five or six years of my childhood there.
Went to an entirely Chinese kindergarten. I was the only foreigner, so I was I was really in a fully Chinese environment. I did learn German from my parents, but everyone else I spoke uh Chinese to, which is also why I think nowadays, very luckily for me, I it's another mother tongue for me, Chinese, and has come in quite handy over the years. And yeah. When I was six we moved to Singapore and uh I did my entire primary school there. I did go to the German school in Singapore because otherwise I would probably have issues with my German nowadays. And then when I was ten we moved to Germany and then I spent most of my remaining childhood in in Germany. It was quite the contrast, uh moving from a multi million inhabitant cities like Singapore to a tiny village in Germany with background
Less than 10,000 inhabitants. Luckily enough, somehow it it worked for us. I have two younger sisters. Uh never really felt uprooted. Uh the classic the culture kit issue luckily did not happen to me. Yeah, it did pull me back to China at some point when I was sixteen. I moved back to China with a uh non profit exchange organization and in my eleventh grade in Shenyang, a place close to North Korea. And yeah, did one year of classic Chinese high school, which was honestly incredibly tough for a lot of reasons. Reasons. There were no foreigners in Chinyang at all. Everything wasn't Chinese and I had actually forgotten my Chinese at that point.
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