About

About Sidu:

Sidu is an engineer by training, a manager at a high-technology company by profession and an entrepreneur at heart. He is a programmer for pleasure, and has been building software for fun and profit for nearly 30 years.

Sidu's last startup, C42 Engineering, was acquired in 2015 by GO-JEK Indonesia (now Pt. AKAB), one of the fastest-growing startups in the world and Indonesia's first unicorn, growing from ~500 orders/day to ~7 million orders/day and $10B in GMV in just 4 years.

Monica talks to Sidu about:

About Sidu and his journey into product management having dabbled multiple roles including entrepreneurship as a product consultant, startup founder and Dev engineer.

What lead to his journey into PM and then heading engineering at Gojek and hiring a lean team.

How has Gojek grown to being a unicorn and giving more established players a real run for their money?