Karthik Vaidyanath is the Director of Product at Indeed Singapore. Prior to Indeed, Karthik was the Chief Product Officer at GoPlay, the video-on-demand app under the GoJek ecosystem. Karthik is originally from India and is a 3-time entrepreneur with one unicorn exit. His start-up InstaLively was acquired by Hike Messenger in India. When launched in 2014, InstaLively was the first mobile live streaming app in Asia and one of the pioneers of Live Streaming in the entire region. In this episode we dig into the difference in launching products in global markets, the approaches of Western vs. Asian expansion, and the pros and cons of international business units that operate independently from HQ vs. centralized decision making.