Dari Data Scientist Gojek ke Value Investor - Budi Ryan, PI

Budi Ryan is co-founder of Recompound and an OJK-licensed Investment Advisor (Penasihat Investasi). Before Recompound, he studied Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on a scholarship, then worked as a software engineer at Shopee and as a data scientist on the credit-scoring team at Gojek's GoFinance. This is part of the "I Can Relate" series, where we sit down with the people behind Recompound — both the customers who live our thesis and the partners who shape it.

"Compounding is only felt later. The early stage is the hardest." Budi Ryan — co-founder of Recompound and the partner who actually manages the money — sits down for "I Can Relate" to walk through how a Hong Kong-trained computer engineer ended up running a investment startup instead of becoming a quant trader. We talk about the AI credit-scoring model he built at Gojek that broke when COVID hit, why he quit Gojek to trade in the 2021 bull market (and what that taught him), the time VCs offered to flip his startup for a quick cash-out and he turned it down, and a Buddhist principle — ehiapasiko, "come and see" — that anchors how he thinks about risk and intellectual honesty.