H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (12 November 2018) – How One Family Built $8 Billion Startup Far From Silicon Valley: SAP is paying $8 billion in cash for Ryan Smith’s Qualtrics

November 12, 2018 Leave a comment

H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (12 November 2018) – How One Family Built $8 Billion Startup Far From Silicon Valley: SAP is paying $8 billion in cash for Ryan Smith’s Qualtrics

Companies

  • Tencent-backed fashion platform Mogujie files for $200 Million US IPO (Technode)

BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Softbank, Samsung

  • Alibaba made a smart screen to help blind people shop and it costs next to nothing (Techcrunch)
  • China’s Alibaba nets record $30 billion in Singles’ Day sales extravaganza, but growth rate plunges (Japan Times)

FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google

  • Has Microsoft finally found a way of making Word useful again? It seems so. (AFR)

Asia Tech & Innovation Trends

  • Digital economy and AI key to China’s post-internet future, say country’s tech leaders (SCMP)

 Global Tech & Innovation Trends

  • A Two-Minute Guide To Quantum Computing (Forbes)
  • How One Family Built $8 Billion Startup Far From Silicon Valley: SAP is paying $8 billion in cash for Ryan Smith’s Qualtrics (Bloomberg)
  • Vista Reaches Deal to Buy Software Firm Apptio for $1.94 Billion (WSJ)

Filed under Innovation

About bambooinnovator
Kee Koon Boon (“KB”) is the co-founder and director of HERO Investment Management which provides specialized fund management and investment advisory services to the ARCHEA Asia HERO Innovators Fund (www.heroinnovator.com), the only Asian SMID-cap tech-focused fund in the industry. KB is an internationally featured investor rooted in the principles of value investing for over a decade as a fund manager and analyst in the Asian capital markets who started his career at a boutique hedge fund in Singapore where he was with the firm since 2002 and was also part of the core investment committee in significantly outperforming the index in the 10-year-plus-old flagship Asian fund. He was also the portfolio manager for Asia-Pacific equities at Korea’s largest mutual fund company. Prior to setting up the H.E.R.O. Innovators Fund, KB was the Chief Investment Officer & CEO of a Singapore Registered Fund Management Company (RFMC) where he is responsible for listed Asian equity investments. KB had taught accounting at the Singapore Management University (SMU) as a faculty member and also pioneered the 15-week course on Accounting Fraud in Asia as an official module at SMU. KB remains grateful and honored to be invited by Singapore’s financial regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to present to their top management team about implementing a world’s first fact-based forward-looking fraud detection framework to bring about benefits for the capital markets in Singapore and for the public and investment community. KB also served the community in sharing his insights in writing articles about value investing and corporate governance in the media that include Business Times, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Manual of Ideas, Investopedia, TedXWallStreet. He had also presented in top investment, banking and finance conferences in America, Italy, Sydney, Cape Town, HK, China. He has trained CEOs, entrepreneurs, CFOs, management executives in business strategy & business model innovation in Singapore, HK and China.

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