Lester Kang is the co-founder of PandaBed (with James Chua) a home sharing marketplace platform that focuses on the Asian region. In this interview Lester shares with Diane Jung, our curator for Asia how PandaBed convinces the culturally conservative Asian market to share its homes. How did you come up with the name PandaBed? The name PandaBed… Read more
For David Thomson, renting Yeo’s tents for an event last September saved him the hassle of storing and maintaining an item which he needed to use only once. This is the sharing economy – a marketplace where ordinary people rent and share anything from plastic stools to homes and cars. And going by the figures,… Read more
“The founders of MyRideBuddy see opportunity in a city where 1 million rides take place in more than 500,000 vehicles every day. The service facilitates more than formalizes the informal exchange of ‘getting a ride’, adding greater security, user agreements and payment transaction benefits to the experience while reducing traffic congestion, pollution and personal driving expenses.”… Read more