EP 161 – Liat Beng Neo – co-Founder at Arrow – Creating a Better Checkout Experience

by Michael Waitze | Dec 8, 2021

Asia Tech Podcast had an interesting conversation with Liat Beng Neo, a co-Founder at Arrow. Arrow is fundamentally trying to simplify the checkout experience to just one tap.

Some of the topics we covered with Neo included:

How he initially got involved in the payments space before it was ‘a thing’
Cash on delivery used to dominate online transactions
Working at some of Asia’s most iconic startups and tech companies
Some of the interesting cultural differences between LAzada, AliBaba, TenCent, and Grab
The evolution of the payments space and the increased number of options today
The complexity that all of these options create for online commerce
The difficulty and beauty of being a first-time founder
The genesis of Arrow and what it is trying to accomplish

Some other titles we considered for this episode:

Payment Paralysis
The Whole Concept of Checkout Is Becoming More Complicated

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