Young Indonesian CEOs Who Inspired the Startup World

Success at a young age is the goal and choice of anyone including you, not least the CEO young Indonesian.

Indonesia also currently has many startup success in various sectors and between startup was built and developed by a young CEO who turned out to be a lot of inspiration.

Their inspiration also breaks the difficulties of being successful at a young age. However, the duties and responsibilities of a CEO are big. Therefore, this article will discuss who are young Indonesian CEOs from various countries startup.

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List of young Indonesian CEOs

1. Amanda Susanti Cole

Who doesn't know platform Vegetable box, one startup shopping site online daily fresh needs. Did you know that Sayurbox was founded by a woman who entered the ranks of the 17 millennial generation of RI who was included in the Forbes list of achievers.

As a young CEO of Indonesia and founder from Sayurbox, Amanda tried to open up food business opportunities digitally through Sayurbox in 2017. That same year Amanda only ran her business by selling daily necessities from local farmers via Whatsapp and Instagram.

In the early years of the emergence of Sayurbox, she also forgot about the difficult times, there were many challenges that Amanda had to go through, even in her first year she was not sure if Sayurbox could survive.

In the following year when Sayurbox already had an application that had not been optimized properly, many consumers complained. However, with the passage of time Sayurbox can survive and develop to this day. In fact, in 2021 Sayurbox gets series B funding from several investors including PT. Astra Digital International.

2. Audrey Maximilian

Starting from her concern about bullying people who vent on social media, Audrey Maximillian made startup which focuses on meditation and psychology online yaitu Riliv. 

Riliv was present in 2015, but in that year also Riliv did not have a professional psychologist, but only brought psychology students who gave advice and initial sedation to its users. Not to mention, Maxi is not a psychology graduate, but information systems so he has to do in-depth research on the problem he is going to solve with Riliv.

Until Riliv was able to get the Google Play Best Unique App award 2019, Riliv has often developed and now they already have dozens of professional psychologists who are ready to help hundreds of thousands of Riliv users. 

In fact, Riliv also managed to get seed funding series in 2022 led by East Ventures. Thanks to Riliv too, Maxi won the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia award in 2020.

3. Ifandi Khairum Ranin

One of Indonesia's young CEOs and founder from startup engaged in education, namely One Percent. One percent was built by Ifandi in 2019 with the format channel Youtube. Previously he only often shared content related to education, mental health, and self-development on his personal Youtube account since 2018.

However, after learning that the video content of One Percent was enjoyed and provided motivation for the viewers, Ifandi and some of his friends decided to make a startup. Until 2022, One Percent followers on social media have reached one million users. Not only that, now One Percent has 40 mentors and psychologists.

4. Rousyan Fikri

edtech startups The next is Understand and again CEO and co- the founder is a young Indonesian, Rousyan Fikri. Before becoming a startup, in 2016 Pahamify was just a channel Youtuber named Rain of Question Marks which contains science and technology educational content.

Then, in 2018 Rousyan and several of his colleagues launched startup Pahamify, and also created learning apps in 2019. There are tens of thousands of learning videos in Pahamify that are not limited to science alone. In fact, in 2020 Pahamify too get Series A pendanaan funding led by Shunwei Capital.

Those are the names of four young Indonesian CEOs who are engaged in the startup, of the four names prove that young age is not an obstacle to being successful. However, it takes effort and hard work to drive it. You can also become a young CEO of Indonesia. Come on, start now!