The town is abuzz with the news that Rocket Internet, a German company that specializes in cloning US websites like Groupon, eBay, and Pinterest, is now hiring in Bangkok.
They held a career event at the Asian Institute of Technology in late February and are currently advertising at least 16 positions on JobsDB and Jobstreet.
Rocket is pretty controversial because of how shamelessly they copy original ideas. Take a look, for example, at a comparison between Pinterest and their shameless clone Pinspire, below.
The company is run by three brothers – Marc, Alexander and Oliver Samwer – and has been profiled recently in Bloomberg Businessweek and Wired.
We heard from a few little birdies that the German company already has about 100 employees in an office on Thonglor Soi 10 and that it is planning to grow to 300 over the next few months and move to CyberWorld Tower on Ratchada.
They’ve already launched a Thai version of fashion e-commerce site Zalora and we’re heard they will be launching an even bigger e-commerce site, probably an Amazon clone, within the next week or two.
Parts of this story originally appeared in tech blog Tech in Asia.
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