We need tax breaks and more tech schools, says Indonesian angel investor Shinta Dhanuwardoyo

We need tax breaks and more tech schools, says Indonesian angel investor Shinta Dhanuwardoyo

In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10.2 per cent of the company. In 2011, the winner of that year’s Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia, Go-Jek, received an undisclosed amount of funding from American angel investor Arthur Benjamin. Both companies went on to be one of the largest tech startups, in the world and Indonesia, respectively.

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