{"podcast":{"title":"Business Daily","slug":"business-daily-480879","podcast_index_feed_id":480879,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p002vsxs.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsxs","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0l9wqb4.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":2000,"summary":"The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T00:18:17.068257+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879"},"episode":{"title":"Founders: Caecilia Chu on 200 rejections and building YouTrip","slug":"founders-caecilia-chu-on-200-rejections-and-building-youtrip","published_at":"2026-06-09T20:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879/founders-caecilia-chu-on-200-rejections-and-building-youtrip","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98s0","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0nqz88v.mp3","summary":"We meet Caecilia Chu, founder of one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing fintech companies, YouTrip.Growing up in a small public housing flat in Hong Kong, she watched her father study at night for years to become an accountant, only to later struggle to secure a bank loan to start his own business. The experience left a lasting impression and sparked her interest in making financial services more accessible. She tells Leanna Byrne how she went from a failed first startup and hundreds of investor rejections to building a company that now processes billions of dollars in payments each year. She also shares how the pandemic-era collapse in travel nearly wiped out the business overnight, forcing a dramatic pivot that ultimately helped YouTrip survive. Founders with Leanna Byrne - The stories of the emotions from the highs and lows of starting a successful business Producer: Amber Mehmood (Picture: Caecilia Chu) You can contact us by email to businessdaily@bbc.co.uk","meta_description":"We meet Caecilia Chu, founder of one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing fintech companies, YouTrip.Growing up in a small public housing flat in Hong Kong…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1048,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-daily-480879/episodes/founders-caecilia-chu-on-200-rejections-and-building-youtrip/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879/founders-caecilia-chu-on-200-rejections-and-building-youtrip.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}