In this episode, we're going to do a deep dive back into the edtech or education scene in Indonesia, and to guide us on that journey we have with us returning guest Syarif Rousyan Fikri, who is the CEO and co-founder of Pahamify. So to our longtime listeners, you may remember from our episode back in season one last year, where he had a chat with Yinglan on introducing Pahamify, talking about how they're changing K-12 education for Indonesian students and especially when it comes to test preparation.In this episode, we're going to catch up with him, learn more about how the education scene has developed, especially, with the pandemic and the lockdowns and how things have progressed over in Indonesia, and also learn more about how they've grown their company from a culture perspective and also a product perspective as well.TranscriptTimestamps00:13 Paulo introduces Fikri;02:02 Catching up on Pahamify;02:30 How edtechs can sustain growth post-pandemic;04:05 Where live streaming fits into Pahamify’s user experience;06:03 The philosophy and cultural nuance behind live streaming;08:11 Dealing with impact of pandemic-induced learning loss on schools and teachers;10:12 Long-term effects of social media engagements; 11:48 How Pahamify changed the life of Fariq; 13:51 The role of customer service for Pahamify;15:30 Pahamify’s culture;17:35 How Pahamify’s culture has impacted their product; 19:10 How Pahamify’s culture has evolved with Indonesia’s edtech landscape;20:40 The next five years for Pahamify and Indonesia edtech;22:14 Rapid Fire Round;About our guestPrior to Pahamify, Syarif Rousyan Fikri was the writer and host of an award-winning Indonesian educational video series on YouTube which now has over 373,000 subscribers. The series received the YouTube Next Up 2017 award from YouTube and collaborated with Google to produce Learning How to Learn Course—the book version of this course was just published recently with a top publisher in Indonesia. Syarif graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), one of Indonesia’s top universities, at only 19 years old and was also a former PhD candidate at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Nanyang Technological University.Music: Cool Upbeat Background Music For Videos by MorningLightMusicTags: startup, Southeast Asia, founder, entrepreneurship, business, technologyThe content of this podcast is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, tax, or business advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any Insignia Ventures fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.