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S P O T L I G H T
Under Aldi's leadership, Gopay
grew exponentially. In 2019, Gopay
was reported to have processed
$6.3 billion dollars of transactions,
and expanded from a purely
domestic business to establishing
a regional presence. Gopay's rise
helped attract strategic investments
from global tech companies
into Gojek including Paypal,
Facebook, Google, and Tencent.
As internet penetration grows,
and capital and geography
continue to decouple, the once
nearly insurmountable barriers
to entrepreneurship in places like
Indonesia are beginning to come
down. In many ways, Aldi's journey
as an entrepreneur parallels
that of the Indonesia ecosystem
itself. What began as an aspiring
entrepreneur in a fledgling
entrepreneurial ecosystem,
became an entrepreneur to aspire
to in a thriving one. And we think
Indonesia is a market to watch.
Organizations like Endeavor are
helping to establish the support
systems globally that Aldi craved
back in 2009. Today, Aldi embodies
the Endeavor spirit of "paying it
forward" and has begun mentoring
entrepreneurs himself, devoting
much of his time to cultivating the
ecosystem he didn't have as an
aspiring entrepreneur. Aldi has
served as a mentor to Gibran
Huzaifah, Founder
of eFishery, an
integrated feeding
solution for fish
and shrimp
farming,
where he has
recently been
appointed to
the board. He
also serves
on the board
of Halodoc,
a fast-growing
health technology
company in Indonesia,
and Kitabisa, Indonesia's largest
donations app. And while Aldi
hasn't formally decided what he
will do next... we've already pre-
committed to being investors in
his next company! Click here
to read on and learn more!
