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Agung Nugroho

6 May 2019

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How Does It Feel to be Acquired by Grab? Kudo Co-Founder Spills the Beans

In 2017, Indonesian O2O e-commerce platform Kudo made headlines when it was acquired by Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab to strengthen its foray into the fintech sector. On the first day of Echelon Asia Summit 2019 at Singapore Expo on Thursday, May 23, Kudo Co-Founder…

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11 April 2019

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Kudo’s Untold Story: How It Enabled Indonesia’s Unbanked and Got Acquired by Grab

Kudo is an Indonesia-based tech company founded by local entrepreneurs Albert Lucius and Agung Nugroho in July 2014. The company wanted to allow anyone to participate in the local ecommercescene, regardless of issues surrounding financial inclusion or internet access in the country. At that time, the…

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