6: SOUTHEAST ASIA
1. Milton Osborne, “What Is Southeast Asia?” in Southeast Asia: An Introductory History (New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 2013).
2. Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History (New South Wales: Allen & Unwin 2013), 1–17.
3. Sally McGrane, “3 Brothers, 4 Months, 1 Fortune in an Early Success in Germany,” E-Commerce (special section), New York Times, September 22, 1999, https://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/technology/22mcgr.html.
4. Thomas Ohr, “25 Things You Should Know about Oliver Samwer (CEO, Rocket Internet),” EU-Startups, August 19, 2014.
5. Max Finger and Oliver Samwer, America’s Most Successful Startups: Lessons for Entrepreneurs (Weisbaden: Springer Fachmedian Wiesbaden GMBH, 1998), 18.
6. Ibid., 11.
7. Meg Whitman with Joan O’C. Hamilton, The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life (New York: Crown, 2010), 64–65.
8. Matt Cowan, “Inside the Clone Factory: The Story of the Samwer Brothers and Rocket Internet,” Wired, March 2, 2012.
9. Andreas Winiarski, interview by author, October 5, 2015, Berlin.
10. Mike Butcher, “In Confidential Email Samwer Describes Online Furniture Strategy as a ‘Blitzkrieg’,” TechCrunch, December 22, 2011.
11. Christian Hardenberg, interview by author, May 19, 2016, Berlin.
12. Ibid.
13. Emma Thomasson and Chijoke Ohuocha, “Landing with a Bump? Germany’s Rocket Falls Back to Earth,” Reuters, June 29, 2016.
14. Hardenberg interview.
15. William Tanuwijaya, interview by author, May 13, 2016, Tokyo.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/.
19. World Bank website, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=CN-SG-MY-TH-ID.
20. “Southeast Asian Consumers Lead in Optimism Globally,” Insights, Nielsen.com, July 28, 2015, http://www.nielsen.com/apac/en/insights/reports/2015/q2-2015-consumer-confidence-report.html.
21. Sheji Ho, phone interview by author, August 18, 2016.
22. Ibid.; eCommerce company presentation.
23. Ho interview.
24. Florian Hope, Sebastien Lamy, and Alessandro Cannarsi, “Can Southeast Asia Live Up to Its E-commerce Potential?” Bain & Company, 2016, 4.
25. Ibid., 3.
26. Sheji Ho, “Why Southeast Asia Is Leading the World’s Most Disruptive Mobile Business Models,” TechCrunch, September 8, 2015.
27. Judith Balea, “Here’s How Much Startups Raised in Southeast Asia in 2015,” Tech in Asia, January 4, 2016.
28. Shona, “Debit and Credit Card Usage in Asia,” blog post, Demystify Asia, June 14, 2016, http://www.demystifyasia.com/creditdebit-card-adoption-asia/.
29. World Bank Logistics Performance Index, http://lpi.worldbank.org.