We build brand owners.

We help new founders launch profitable e-commerce brands and help brand owners grow in a decentralized way.

01Our mission

Our mission

“Democratize e‑commerce andmake it a growth vehicle forpeople from every background.”

ECOMPAD

About ECOMPAD

ECOMPAD "E-Commerce Launchpad" is an e-commerce brand incubator.

We help new founders launch profitable e-commerce brands and help brand owners grow in a decentralized way.

Our company

ECOMPAD is a product of VUTURI - PT Vuturi Global Inovasi.

How we started

We started by challenging ourselves, and by sharing.

2016

The beginning: from one product to one conviction

The journey began with a simple invitation to share.

With a track record as the top internet marketer twice in international markets, Rio was invited by a friend to build a digital marketing community in Indonesia.

The community's aim was simple: share how to earn online.

That invitation became a challenge: could experience on the global stage take root at home?

The answer took shape as PlanetAnjing.com, an e-commerce brand that started with one product and grew into a business with sales beyond 15 billion rupiah.

From one product. PlanetAnjing.com showed that growth comes from consistent steps.

2018

Digital Entrepreneur: when community became a calling

What began as a place to share slowly found a deeper purpose.

The same questions kept coming from entrepreneurs: how to enter the digital world, and how to stay and grow in it?

We answered by turning the community into a professional service, DigitalEntrepreneur.co.id, and launching the online program "Startup Mastermind", a place for entrepreneurs to build a solid digital foundation.

Startup Mastermind is now called ECOM NAVIGATOR

A community that became a calling. Startup Mastermind turned a sharing space into a solid digital foundation.

2020

The pandemic: a test that sped up change

In March 2020, Indonesia entered large-scale social restrictions to slow COVID-19. Many businesses stopped. Many people lost their footing.

In that uncertainty, Digital Entrepreneur chose to show up and help those affected.

History later recorded a paradox: the same crisis sped up internet adoption and drove significant digital economy growth.

A momentum whose effects we still feel today.

We learned that big change often comes not when things are comfortable, but when we are forced to adapt.

A test that sped up change. Crisis forced adaptation, and the digital economy grew faster.

2027

ECOMPAD: dedication and specialization

The journey did not stop. It found a sharper form.

ECOMPAD arrived as part of VUTURI, dedicated to two missions.

Help new founders launch profitable e-commerce brands, and support brand owners as they grow in a decentralized way.

A decade of experience now serves one clear aim, because we believe real skill comes from going deep, not just going wide.

Dedication and specialization. ECOMPAD chose to focus on launching and growing e-commerce brands.

Our methodology

Success is not born. It is built.

Newton's cradle. Five drivers push each other: awareness, mentality, principle, process, and the scalability engine.

We do not believe in instant results.

We believe in the law of causality: cause and effect.

Every brand that works leaves a trail: decisions made, data read, and patterns that repeat.

Our methodology is built from those trails, not from what is popular.

For starters, that means a good brand can be designed from day one. For those already running but stuck, that means every stall has a cause that can be found.

In both cases, our principle is the same: follow results and data.

Why we exist

ECOMPAD exists to make a meaningful contribution by driving independence through e-commerce entrepreneurship. That commitment rests on two core beliefs.

01

E-commerce opens the boundary. Business independence is now open to anyone.

An open gate. E-commerce tore down fences that once limited who could build a business.

Throughout history, the chance to build a business was often set by things outside a person's control: where they were born, the capital they inherited, and the network they had.

The market was a fenced space, and only a few held the key.

E-commerce tore down many of those fences. Distance stopped being a barrier, and market access stopped being a privilege.

Today, someone from a small town can reach customers across many places with only the device in their hand.

For us, the deepest meaning of this shift is not a new sales channel. It is a path to independence.

The freedom for anyone to shape their own livelihood, whatever their background, profession, or age.

02

Entrepreneurship means ownership and control.

An open lock. Entrepreneurship means holding your own key: ownership and control of the brand.

Open access does not automatically create independence. Millions of people sell online today, but most sell someone else's product.

They pour in time and effort, yet hold no control over price, customers, or the direction of the business.

One algorithm change or platform policy can erase years of work.

This is where we separate selling from entrepreneurship. Selling is an activity. Entrepreneurship is ownership.

An entrepreneur owns their brand, builds a direct relationship with customers, and creates an asset whose value keeps growing, and can even be passed on.

The world does not lack sellers. What is rare is brand owners.

That is why ECOMPAD exists.

E-commerce has opened the door, but the knowledge and guidance to build something truly your own are not evenly spread. That gap is what we aim to bridge.

We guide aspiring entrepreneurs as they build a brand from zero, and we support those already running as they take their brand to the next stage.

Through structured programs, direct guidance, and strategy drawn from real case studies.

For us, true independence is not just the ability to sell. It is ownership of what you have built.

Rio Gunawan

Rio Gunawan

Ideator ECOMPAD

Founder's story