The Weekly Snapshot: News from Gojek, Bukalapak, Lazada, and more

There’s been a lot of movement in the startup scene.

Lazada CEO Pierre Poignant / Photo credit: Alibaba

Bukalapak co-founder and president director Fajrin Rasyid has left his role to join local telecommunications firm Telkom Indonesia as its digital director. Lazada Indonesia CEO Chun Li is poised to take over as group chief executive at the ecommerce firm after Pierre Poignant stepped down just a year and seven months after taking on the job. Meanwhile, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son exited Alibaba Group’s board of directors after a stint of almost 15 years.

Hear the details on all these stories and more on this week’s episode of The Weekly Snapshot.

Timecodes:

00:00 – Intro music
00:13 – Gojek lays off 430 employees – 9% of total headcount
01:20 – Tencent buys Southeast Asian streaming platform Iflix
02:45 – Bukalapak co-founder Fajrin Rasyid steps down to join state telco
03:29 – SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to step down from Alibaba’s board
04:07 – Lazada appoints a new CEO
06:26 – East Ventures seeks $88m for post-pandemic startup fund
07:25 – Canva doubles valuation to $6b after raising $60m
08:38 – Sequoia invests in Singapore quantum computing startup Horizon
09:25 – Singapore’s Shiok Meats bags $3m in bridge funding ahead of series A
10:28 – Thai fintech firm Synqa rakes in $80m in series C funding

Download the full transcript here.

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