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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.
Zurairi A.R.
MALAYSIA
“Teach me how to build a newsletter that explains what’s going on in parliament to Malaysians.”
Sochenda Aok
CAMBODIA
"Teach me how to build more reliable revenue streams from my two audiences: local consumers and foreign donors"
Sandeep Varma
AUSTRALIA
“Teach me how to build an accelerator program to support our community of South Asian writers in Australia”
Samantha Magick
FIJI
“Teach me how to ask Fiji’s small business owners what they need to build their business”
Nabilah Said
SINGAPORE
“Teach me how to find out what my community wants from us so we can serve them better.”
Lance Polu
SAMOA
“Teach me how to build a newsletter community around teaching the Samoan language through audio storytelling”
Jason Hendriks
AUSTRALIA
“Teach me how to build a content/product strategy that creates media that’s useful for our audience”
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."
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.”
Asinate Wainiqolo
FIJI
“Teach me how to build an information hub around personal finance for the iTaukei community.”
Annelis Putri
INDONESIA
"Teach me how to build a media intelligence company that connects global entrepreneurs to business opportunities in Indonesia."
The coaches
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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.
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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.
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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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