In this episode, you will learn:Why is Intudo Ventures an ‘Indonesia-only’ venture capital firm?Intudo Ventures is an independent VC firm, ie no single LP owns more than 10% of the fund.  Why is this important?How is Intudo’s team consisting of just nine people set up and operate to ensure they support all their portfolio startups well?According to Eddy, why will his ‘concentrated portfolio’ approach give better returns as compared to the ‘index’ investing approach?What is a commercial-operational dependency moat?Why does Intudo primarily focus on B2B or B2B2C startups instead of B2C startups?What does Eddy mean when he says that Intudo looks for non-contentious companies?Why does Eddy believe that building a VC is like building a startup?AboutEddy Chan is a founding partner of “Indonesia-only” Independent venture capital firm Intudo Ventures with over US$230 million in committed capital, that acts as the Indonesia beachhead strategy for dozens of leading institutions, funds and family offices from the United States, Europe, and Asia and supports the “digital transformation” strategy of dozens of Indonesian conglomerates.Intudo portfolio companies include Xendit, Pintu, Halodoc, TaniHub, Kargo, PasarPolis, BeliMobilGue, Nalagenetics, Yummy Corp., and more.Eddy works closely with top Indonesian “Pulkam S.E.A. Turtles” and local Indonesian talent via professional and student associations and has been featured as a speaker at the annual Harvard Asia Business Conference (2019-2022), MIT Asia Business Conference (2020-2022) and Southeast Asia MBA Weekend (2018-2022).Prior to co-founding Intudo Ventures, Eddy worked on venture investments in startups since the late 1990s, including PayPal, Palantir, and Affirm, founded and operated venture-backed technology companies with operations in Silicon Valley and Asia, practiced corporate/M&A law and worked as an investment banker.Eddy holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley’s Walter A. Haas School of Business.