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Welcome to the Class of 2021

Meet our twelve amazing finalists from Australia, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Samoa, Singapore, and Tonga.

 

8 women + 4 men from 10 countries. We can’t wait to see what you build with your coaches.

 
Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Zurairi A.R.

MALAYSIA

“Teach me how to build a newsletter that explains what’s going on in parliament to Malaysians.”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Sochenda Aok

CAMBODIA

"Teach me how to build more reliable revenue streams from my two audiences: local consumers and foreign donors"

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Sandeep Varma

AUSTRALIA

“Teach me how to build an accelerator program to support our community of South Asian writers in Australia”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Samantha Magick

FIJI

“Teach me how to ask Fiji’s small business owners what they need to build their business”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Nabilah Said

SINGAPORE

“Teach me how to find out what my community wants from us so we can serve them better.”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Lance Polu

SAMOA

“Teach me how to build a newsletter community around teaching the Samoan language through audio storytelling”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Jason Hendriks

AUSTRALIA

“Teach me how to build a content/product strategy that creates media that’s useful for our audience”

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Dulamkhorloo Baatar

MONGOLIA

"Teach me how to build a simple website to clarify our mission and support the needs of a community of transformative media in Mongolia."

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Bhrikuti Rai

NEPAL

"Teach me how to build a podcast festival in Nepal for the community."

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Belinda Fraser

TONGA

“Teach me to build a personalised 30-day challenge email-based daily meal plan and complementary weekly fitness routine that Fiji women would want to pay for.”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Asinate Wainiqolo

FIJI

“Teach me how to build an information hub around personal finance for the iTaukei community.”

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Alan Soon and Rishad Patel Alan Soon and Rishad Patel

Annelis Putri

INDONESIA

"Teach me how to build a media intelligence company that connects global entrepreneurs to business opportunities in Indonesia."

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The coaches

  • Anu Harchu

    Anu Harchu

    MONGOLIA

    Anu Harchu is a creator who focuses on personal finance, sustainability, beauty, travel, and bujo. She’s going to work with Sochenda to help her articulate her mission around climate change, and to build it into a viable business.

  • Jane Mahoney

    Jane Mahoney

    AUSTRALIA

    Jane heads the reader revenue practice at Private Media in Melbourne. She’s helping Nabilah and Jason figure out how to ask their audiences what they want so they can serve them better.

  • Pankaj Mishra

    Pankaj Mishra

    INDIA

    Pankaj is the co-founder of Factor Daily in Bangalore. He’s going to work with Zurairi to help him work through his value proposition around a newsletter for his audiences.

  • Ross Settles

    Ross Settles

    HONG KONG

    Ross Settles is a professor focused on digital media and entrepreneurship at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of Hong Kong University. He’s going to work with Annelis to help her figure out her product-market fit, and with Sandeep to help him test his assumptions around his community of writers.

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