Mikal Khoso (Investor @ Wavemaker Partners)

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This week we had on Mikal Khoso (@mikalkhoso) from Wavemaker Partners.

Wavemaker is a multi-strategy fund based in LA and Singapore that invests globally across enterprise, consumer, and digital media opportunities. Within his role, Mikal focuses on emerging markets, and he documents a lot of his findings through writing at Emergent.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Operating across geographies and stages

• The next opportunity zone for innovation

• The reversal of startup idea generation between established and emerging markets

• The super app wars and the logic behind bundling services

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💸 Great list of DEI-focused LPs

🖌 Master list of software tools for creators

📈 Growth frameworks to grow your marketplace

🔢 Community growth metrics to use as benchmark data

👥 Applying product thinking to build online communities

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