Ice Breakers

Ice Breakers with Surya Halim

December 6, 2022

Surya is the co-founder and CEO of Delman, an Indonesian data management startup that raised a $1.6M seed in 2020. They're a low to no-code solution that makes data management easy and accessible for Indonesian companies.


👋🏼 How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

We help companies in Indonesia deal with big data.


🧐 What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

70% of my time is spent hustling.


🏆 What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

Building a startup with a team of 35+, and serving more than 50+ startups and enterprises through our SaaS and solutions!


🔍 What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?

Mostly deeptech (because we are in this space), tech and startups, web3 and sometimes esports in my free time.


💼 What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry?

Be in the industry you love. Usually people don't stay long in this industry if they don't love the business.


🗣 What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours?

Anything!


🎥 What's your favorite movie/TV show?

Family guy?


🍨 What's your go-to ice cream flavor?

Chocolate or matcha.

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