I’m glad to have a chance to be at the lunch with Marko Ahtisaari (CEO, Dopplr), Stephen J Marcopoto (President, Turner International Asia Pacific), Yew Ming Lau (Senior VP, Turner International Asia Pacific), and of course, Thomas Crampton, Jean-Francois Amadei, Sean Rach, Adam O’Conor from Ogilvy and other great people from Shangri-La and CNN. Took away some interesting insights from the lunch!

During the lunch

Marko Ahtissari explained in detail what Dopplr is, as well as the business model of it and how Dopplr differentiate themselves from other social networking sites, and trip planning tools.

One interesting Insight

In the discussion, we came across a very interesting insight by Adam O’Conor that people always look for bad comments/ gradings online. I completely agree on that. Online shoppers always look for negative or “one star” comments on the products that they’re about to buy. I guess it is a common, and natural psychological action that human try to do to avoid risks. We want to learn from people who have already taken the risk and have regretted, so that we don’t make the same mistake.

Because of the trend of online grading and commenting, the only way for companies to survive these days is to provide products/ services that offer true values to targets.

Picture worth a thousand words.

Great table setting

From left: Me, Marko Ahtissari, Sean Rach

From left: Sean Rach, Yew Ming Lau, Adam O'Conor

Delicious main course

...and dessert

Photo Credit: Jean-Francois Amadei