Hypergrowth Asian companies need to rethink their people strategies

PRIOR to the pandemic, South-east Asia had its foot firmly on the digitalisation gas pedal, paving a new breed of hypergrowth companies. According to Facebook and Bain & Company's SYNC South-east Asia report, the region's digital economy has expanded across every metric and the pace at which companies were able to migrate from offline to online surpassed initial estimates.

Tech companies have fallen on the "right" side of the pandemic, with a significant pool of emerging Series A, B and C companies thriving in the region. However, this state of hypergrowth is not without its challenges, particularly in the people department.

After all, there is a huge leap from a scrappy startup of 10 people to a 100-strong organisation working towards their next round of fundraising.