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#ula #ecommerce #Internet #Indonesia Ula's Nipun Mehra: Conquering Indonesia's Vast and Fast-Growing E-Commerce Market Nipun Mehra, the Founder and CEO of Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Ula, came to entrepreneurship late in life, having first worked at Sequoia Capital, Flipkart, Pine Labs, Amazon and Boston Consulting. The delay didn't hurt though, with Ula now counting Jeff Bezos, Prosus Ventures, Tencent and B-Capital Group among its investors, hoping to capture a portion of the $300B+ retail market in the region. This is his story and life- and business lessons. (This interview was part of a collaboration with CGS-CIMB and Endeavor Malaysia as part of the 'Thought Inspire' Series, filmed at the Asia School of Business, a partnership between MIT Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia.) --- CONTENTS 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:53 - Which Came First: Employment or Entrepreneurship? 00:03:22 - Get a Job First? 00:05:05 - When Was the Plunge Taken? 00:06:11 - Which Skills Were Most Valuable? 00:07:15 - What Do Blue-Chip Investors Like Sequioa Seek in Entrepreneurs? 00:12:49 - Does Academic Excellence Matter? 00:15:31 - Should Entrepreneurs Expand to Indonesia, ASEAN's Biggest Market? 00:18:24 - In New World Order, Should Entrepreneurs Pivot to Profit Instead? 00:22:08 - How To Choose A Market to Operate In? 00:28:46 - In Tech, Layoffs & Cost Cuts. Discuss. 00:31:19 - Have Valuations Suffered in the Current Market Conditions? 00:34:48 - Managing Investors When Valuations Fall 00:38:27 - Where to List? Asia or US? 00:42:36 - Why Did Jeff Bezos Invest in Ula (And In His Personal Capacity) 00:45:31 - Nipun's 60-Second Pitch to Amazon's Jeff Bezos 00:46:20 - What Does it Take to Succeed in Indonesia? 00:48:18 - How to Scale In Indonesia 00:49:26 - How to Develop Expectations Jointly With Investors 00:52:40 - What Are Tencent's Expectations? FOLLOW NIPUN HERE: LinkedIn: https://t.co/8lI1IVZcuf Twitter: @nipunmehra Endeavor: https://endeavorindonesia.org/nipun-mehra/ --- Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang .. Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

Richard Eu is the great-grandson of Eu Kwong Pai, who founded the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) business Eu Yan Sang, which first began in Perak, Malaysia in 1879. He has been credited not only with keeping the 144-year-old brand relevant and thriving, but also for wresting back control of the business from Lum Chang in a series of buyouts, listing (and de-listing) the company on the SGX and steering the brand into the digital age. Like most scions of multi-generational, successful family businesses, Richard rarely appears in the public eye. Which makes his views, in this rare appearance, of issues like breaking the three-generation family curse, IPOs, motivating wealthy children and having Temasek as a shareholder all the more valuable. (This interview was part of a collaboration with CGS-CIMB and Endeavor Malaysia as part of the 'Thought Inspire' Series, filmed at the Asia School of Business (a partnership between MIT Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia) .. Follow Richard and Eu Yan Sang here: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Eu Tatler: https://www.tatlerasia.com/people/richard-eu LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/euyansang .. Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang .. Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

EP Plus’ Pang Tse Ming: Profitable, Innovative and Altruistic Tse Ming is the founder and CEO of EP Plus, a healthcare and pharmaceutical company he founded to escape his humble beginnings. Now profitable and exploring a regional expansion into three more countries on top of the existing three (Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia), the company’s focus has shifted to also incorporate Innovation and Altruism CONTENTS 00:18 - Kuala Pilah, Sports, Risk-Taking and Being a ‘Have-Not’ 03:15 - Where the Hunger Came From 03:53 - How the Business Started 05:23 - Three Turbochargers 07:10 - Fertility is Dropping: Why? 08:48 - How Is Business? 10:50 - Healthcare: Always a Strong Business 12:57 - What Keeps You Awake at Night 14:31 - Benefits of Being a Private Business 15:14 - Keeping Staff Motivated: How? 16:09 - Will You Sell Any Shares? 16:43 - IPO? Private Equity? 17:41 - What’s the Company Culture? 19:30 - How to Build a Successful Business? 21:55 - Advice to the Young Businessman .. Follow Tse Ming Here: URL: https://epplusgroup.com/master-marketeer/ LinkedIn: https://my.linkedin.com/in/tse-ming-pang-9b114b38 .. Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #business Medispec's Teng Beng Lee -- From Fighter Pilot to Successful Business Exit From humble beginnings in Penang, Malaysia, to wanting to become a fighter pilot in the SIngapore army and then into business having obtained his first product from Thailand, determination marked Teng Beng Lee's success in business. (Vistage Malaysia engaged Do More to conduct this interview. Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organisation for small and midsize business leaders, with over 27,000 members worldwide.) --- CONTENTS: 00:00:51 - Hitchhiking to Singapore to Become a Fighter Pilot 00:03:10 - A Sister's Help to Starting in Business 00:03:58 - No Such Thing as Failure 00:04:26 - The Power of Passion 00:05:34 - How Beng Lee Secured his First Medical Product .. at the Expense of Sime Darby 00:08:21 - Growth .. How? 00:09:00 - Business Principles to Live By? 00:09:42 - Healthcare: Recession-Proof 00:10:05 - Why Only Asian Generic Drugs? 00:11:17 - Why Exit? 00:11:57 - Creating Value for an Exit: How? 00:12:55 - Fighting Complacency 00:14:12 - Why Become a Businessman? 00:15:00 - What It Takes to Succeed 00:15:28 - How to Stay Motivated 00:16:38 - Why Sell and Not Keep? 00:17:31 - The Process of Selling to Ekuinas 00:18:10 - Post-Retirement Plans? 00:18:57 - What's Most Important Now? 00:19:19 - Advice to His Children? 00:19:52 - Investing Advice? Follow Beng Lee here: IG: https://www.instagram.com/blteng/ Vistage: https://vistage.com.my/taking-charge/ Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuan... FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeC... ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#success #diversity #technology Google Cloud’s Sherie Ng and Capital A’s Aireen Omar: Let There Be Diversity! Sherie Ng, Managing Director of Singapore & Malaysia, Google Cloud and Aireen Omar President of Ventures at Capital A (formerly known as AirAsia Group), talk about the gender gap in the tech industry and what can be done to redress the imbalance. --- CONTENTS: 00:01:18: Sherie’s Success Journey .. 00:04:22: Aireen’s Success Journey .. 00:05:57: Why Tony Fernandes Chose Aireen to Head Malaysia 00:08:25: Should Women Lean In More? 00:10:59: Can Leadership Begin at Home? 00:13:23: What Happens When Motherhood Beckons? 00:16:38: Answering The Big Question 00:20:25: What a Diverse Boardroom and Workplace Looks Like 00:24:24: Can Changing Values Drive Diversity? 00:28:27: How Female Management Can Drive Value 00:37:37: How Web3 Can Turbocharge Diversity 00:42:28: What Kind of People Will Succeed in the Jobs of the Future? Follow Sherie here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherieng/?originalSubdomain=sg Twitter: https://twitter.com/sherieng Follow Aireen here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aireenomar/?originalSubdomain=my IG: https://www.instagram.com/aireenomar/?hl=en Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#business #China #diversify Ng Chong Lam of Ng Eng Kee & Sons: Diversify, Integrity, China! Some lessons from a multi-generational business that has existed since the early 20th century. The NEK Group’s founder, the late Ng Eng Kee, was born in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia in 1925, helping his father, the late Ng Chong Geng, to establish manufacturing and trading companies which specialised in rubber, palm oil and petrochemical products. The move to China and other overseas markets began In the 1970s and continues until today with new businesses in real estate and manufacturing. ​Today, the NEK Group is a family office that invests in fintech, AI, semiconductors, HR engagement platforms, travel, jewellery and luxury goods all the way from seed to growth stage, including highly profitable late-stage companies. NEK offers early stage companies equity capital, mentorship support and networking access to both the Southeast Asia region as well as China’s Greater Bay region. (Vistage Malaysia engaged Do More to conduct this interview. Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organisation for small and midsize business leaders, with over 27,000 members worldwide.) CONTENTS: 01:06 - Diversify, Have Integrity, Do Good and Keep Cash 02:37 - Growth Industries? 04:01 - Private Business, External Shareholders 04:40 - Many Ways to Invest! 04:56 - Interesting Markets? 06:56 - What of the Malaysian Economy? 08:13 - Advice to the Entrepreneur 09:21 - Advice for a Successful China Expansion 14:19 - How China’s Business Methods Differ from America’s 17:13 - Communism and Hierarchies in China 18:26 - America’s Jealousy of China 19:52 - A China Partnership is Essential 20:54 - Four Success Tips -- Follow Chong Lam and the NEK Group here: URL: https://www.nekgroup.com.my/about LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chong-lam-ng-3b41ab1/ Vistage: https://vistage.com.my/better-boss/ --- Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#entrepreneur #venturecapital #fundraise Penjana’s Taufiq Iskandar and MRANTI’s Safuan Zairi: Capital, Policy are Music to Entrepreneurs Thriving tech ecosystems need sufficient pools of capital and a vibrant policy framework to succeed. Safuan Zairi, Chief of Ecosystem Development at govt research & innovation commercialisation agency MRANTI and Taufiq Iskandar, CEO of the govt’s matching fund-of-funds firm Penjana Kapital, take us on a journey of Malaysia’s tech ecosystem and offer an honest view of where the country’s players need to improve to remain relevant in an uncertain future. ……… FOLLOW TAUFIQ HERE: Penjana: https://www.penjanakapital.com.my/aboutus/team LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taufiq-iskandar-088543a/ FOLLOW SAFUAN HERE: Twitter: https://twitter.com/safuanzairi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safuan-zairi-bb562756/ MRANTI: https://mranti.my/about-us ……… CONTENTS: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:22 - A Cold Hard Look At Malaysia’s Tech Ecosystem: Ahead, On Par or Behind? 00:07:47 - So, Progress: Where and How? 00:11:40 - Are Venture Capitalists in Malaysia Too Risk-Averse? 00:21:28 - What Would Attract Capital from Andreesen Horowitz, KKR, Sequoia? 00:25:41 - Do Entrepreneurs Really Need to Think Big, Think Global? 00:27:09 - Why Is There So Little Risk-Taking Capital? 00:32:39 - What Is Malaysia’s Positioning WIthin ASEAN to Attract More Capital? 00:44:20 - What Happens When Companies Go Bust Due to Circumstances? 01:05:11 - Must You Be in a Sexy Sector to Attract Capital? 01:11:46 - Is Enough Being Done to Keep Legacy, Old Companies Relevant? 01:19:44 - How To Catalyse More Global Capital to Malaysia? What Mechanisms Exist? 01:22:09 - How To Use the Media to Build More Awareness? 01:28:30 - Is There a Listening Platform for Entrepreneurs to Talk to the Ecosystem? --- Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#semiconductor #manufacturing #automation Amlex's Lim Say Soon - The Power of Perseverance 'Perseverance' and 'tenacity' best describes Lim Say Soon's business journey, as it has not always been plain sailing for the owner of this Penang-based electronics services company. Find out from Say Soon what it takes to overcome the odds, with his early days being marked by extreme hardship and many uncertain nights. (Vistage Malaysia engaged Do More to conduct this interview. Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organisation for small and midsize business leaders, with over 27,000 members worldwide.) --- CONTENTS 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - The Amlex Journey 02:59 - Early Company Hardship 05:13 - Surviving Global Crisis 06:38 - LEAP Market Listing 07:51 - Staying Relevant in the Industry 09:35 - Handling Hyper Growth 10:24 - Talent Hiring Philosophy 11:11 - Always Hungry Moving Forward 13:00 - Enjoy the Process 14:14 - Succeeding in Business 15:27 - Perseverance in Entrepreneurship 16:39 - The Mindset Growing Amlex 17:39 - Future of Semiconductor Industry --- Follow Lim Say Soon here: URL: https://www.amlextech.com/ LinkedIn: hhttp://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#chocolate #cocoa #business Guan Chong's Brandon Tay: Malaysia's Cocoa Magnate At the age of 35, Brandon Tay took over the helm of Guan Chong, a cocoa processing company, following a split within the family business in 2000. Today, the company's cocoa ingredients are exported to over 70 countries and its clientele include world-renowned confectionery manufacturers Mars, Hershey's and Lotte of South Korea. Find out the business principles that enabled Brandon to build Guan Chong into the world's 4th-largest cocoa processing company and Malaysia's largest. (Vistage Malaysia engaged Do More to conduct this interview. Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organisation for small and midsize business leaders, with over 27,000 members worldwide.) --- 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - Journey of Building a Nationwide Business 08:48 - The Value of a Business Community 10:40 - Consistency of Supply as a Business Principle 12:30 - Always Thinking Two Steps Ahead 15:45 - Importance of Taking Risks and Growing Fast 18:51 - Establishing the Right Key People 20:16 - Making it Big: 3 Pieces of Advice 23:03 - Can Hard Work Beat Luck? --- Follow Brandon and GCB here: URL: https://www.gcbcocoa.com/home --- Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https: //www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#ecommerce #secondhand #retail Carousell’s Gaurav Bhasin: Building ASEAN’s Amazon Having headed Mudah as CEO, Gaurav Bhasin is now at Singapore-founded ecommerce unicorn Carousell Group as Chief Strategy Officer, helping to map out its growth trajectory in its eight markets in the region. Founded in 2012, Carousell’s raison d’etre is to make ‘second hand the first choice’, via its own brands like Carousell, Cho Tot, Laku6, Mudah.my, OneKyat, Ox Street and Refash, backed by investors that include Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments and Sequoia Capital India. In this episode, the latest under Do More’s collaboration with Endeavor Malaysia and CGS-CIMB, Gaurav gets candid about the challenges and valuable lessons learnt while growing one of ASEAN’s biggest ecommerce marketplaces. --- CONTENTS 00:01:16 - Steering The Ship - Why Second-Hand First? 00:03:34 - Navigating Ukraine War, Inflation, Market Crash, China Crisis 00:07:04 - What It Takes to be a Unicorn 00:08:48 - How To Build Without Money? 00:11:42 - How Was Mudah.My Monetised? 00:12:39 - How to Raise Money When Small and Unproven? 00:16:16 - Should Carousell Move to Singapore? 00:17:01 - Gaurav’s Failure as an Entrepreneur & The Importance of Being a Cockroach 00:19:27 - Hiring in a Talent-Thin Environment 00:21:50 - Gaurav’s Hiring Process 00:23:29 - Can You Hire From Abroad? 00:26:55 - What Kind of Diversity Counts? 00:28:48 - How to Build Culture in a Hyper Growth Environment 00:31:29 - Why Does Culture Matter? 00:33:39 - Transferring Culture to New Acquisitions 00:35:00 - Three Things to Consider When Making New Acquisitions 00:37:13 - Valuations: Do They Still Matter? 00:40:45 - How Do You Show 2nd-Hand Stuff is High Quality? 00:44:29 - Handling Investors When Business is Changing - Fast 00:46:48 - Path to Profit: the Elephant in the Room 00:48:09 - How Does ASEAN ECommerce Play Out? 00:50:08 - Should You Give Up Majority Ownership? 00:51:52 - Growing Sideways Can Be Cheaper 00:53:14 - Exit Strategies 00:54:00 - Three Words of Advice for Entrepreneurs in Scaling Mode 00:56:20 - How To Pick the Right Investments 00:56:35 - How to Build a Community on an Online Marketplace 00:57:40 - What’s a Successful Marketing Strategy? 00:59:16 - Would Gaurav Be an Entrepreneur Again? And What Would He Do? 00:59:51 - What Did Gaurav Do Wrong? What Makes a Good Co-Founder? 01:03:00 - What Data Works? 01:04:14 - How To Prepare For Recession? Follow Gaurav here: LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3bYMifX Mudah.my: https://www.mudah.my/ Carousell Group: https://press.carousell.com/carousell-group/ --- --- Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#5G #China #Chips JF Technology’s Dato’ Foong Wei Kuong: Malaysia’s 5G Flagbearer in China Dato’ Foong Wei Kuong heads the fast-rising semiconductor company JF Technology Bhd (JF Tech), which he founded in 1999 and grew into one of the top three test contacting solutions providers in the world with over 200 MNC clients and owner of 68 patents filed worldwide. In 2020, Dato’ Foong led JF Tech into China via a 5G partnership with Huawei, gaining access to her vast market of over 1.4 billion people. (Vistage Malaysia engaged Do More to conduct this interview. Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organisation for small and midsize business leaders, with over 27,000 members worldwide.) .. CONTENTS 00:24 - Born Poor: What Do You Do Next? 02:33 - There Was A Guru: What Did He Teach? 04:07 - From Country Manager to Starting JF Tech: How? 05:50 - Faith: How Does It Help? 07:08 - Dato Foong’s Success Factors 09:38 - How a Business Network Helps 10:53 - What Keeps Dato Foong Up At Night? 13:23 - Management Tips and Techniques 15:43 - Implementing Multiple Growth Engines 17:32 - What It Takes to Partner a Giant Like Huawei 18:37 - What It’s Like to Do Business in China 19:27 - Different Business Styles: China vs US 21:05 - Will China and the US Go To War? Will We Need To Choose Sides? 21:58 - Advice to Entrepreneurs 22:46 - Where Will JF Tech Be in 2032? .. Follow Dato’ Foong and JF Tech Here: URL: www.jf-technology.com LinkedIn: https://my.linkedin.com/in/wei-kuong-foong-5b4119b9 .. Follow Vistage Malaysia & Singapore Here: URL: https://vistage.com.my/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/VistageMalay... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vist... To Become/Refer A Member: https://vistage.com.my/membership/mem... To Become A Vistage Chair: https://vistage.com.my/vistage-chair/... .. .. Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#Entrepreneur #Investor #Malaysia Having held key positions in public life with Malaysia's telco regulator MCMC and in the International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation, World Bank and the United Nations Development Program, Dato' Sharil Tarmizi has a unique viewpoint on the local and international regulatory landscape. He has successfully parlayed this with his own background in law to invest in his personal capacity in some of Malaysia's most successful startups, while continuing to play a directorship role in PLCs, GLCs and private companies like POS Malaysia, Digital Nasional Bhd, Amanat Lebuhraya Rakyat, Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia, Opcom Holdings, Bina Darulaman, Privasia Technology, QuantePhi Sdn Bhd, Lotus Cars UK, Endeavor Malaysia, Multimedia Development Corporation and BinaFikir Sdn Bhd. In this latest edition of the Do More Podcast's Think Inspire Series with Endeavor Malaysia and CGS-CIMB, Sharil shares some of his wisdom and experience with Khoo Hsu Chuang. .. CONTENTS: 00:01:45 - What Sharil Looks For Before Investing in a Business 00:02:42 - What Makes a Good Entrepreneur? 00:04:36 - Lessons Learnt From Passing on Twitter (!) 00:08:08 - Metrics to Seek When Analysing a Business? 00:10:11 - Key Differences Between US and Asian Startups 00:12:06 - Why Do These Differences Exist? 00:14:31 - There Are Different Types of Entrepreneur .. 00:18:25 - The Trouble With Too Many Handouts 00:20:54 - Malaysia’s Entitlement Malaise 00:27:00 - Does Malaysia Inc. Stymie Entrepreneurs? 00:29:14 - Malaysia’s 5G Lethargy - Why? 00:34:26 - Dealing With Structural Limitations 00:37:58 - Should the Govt Shrink? 00:41:05 - Govt Engagement and Policy: Sufficient? 00:46:53 - What’s Wrong With a Foreign Listing? 00:49:52 - Advice To Entrepreneur in a Competitive ASEAN 00:52:53 - No Safety Net: What Happens? 00:55:12 - Older Entrepreneurs Means Experience 00:56:10 - One Rule Above All to Succeed in Business --- Follow Dato’ Sharil Here: ZICO: https://zico.group/people/dato-mohame... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharil-ta... Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dat... --- Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuan... FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ --- Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeC... ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/

#cars #IPO #ecommerce Carsome's Eric Cheng - Malaysia's First Unicorn In just 7 short years, Carsome's Eric Cheng has built Malaysia's first unicorn, thanks to years of hard grinding and a dogged will to succeed, following years of failure. Find out what it takes to build a unicorn (ie a company worth a billion US dollars or more) in this day and age. 00:00:58 - How A College Dropout Starts A Unicorn 00:04:22 - Building Resilience -- 'Armour' -- Bouncing Back From Failure 00:06:54 - Eric Executes Really, Really Well - Where Did He Learn It? 00:09:42 - From Employee to Entrepreneur 00:14:02 - Management Lessons From Left Field 00:18:25 - Where Do You Find Good People? 00:22:40 - The Right People For Regional Expansion 00:26:41 - Playing the Unicorn Game 00:28:40 - What Data Does Eric Use to Plan? 00:30:37 - Profiling Customers in a Disparate ASEAN Market 00:34:12 - Challenges of Regulation? Policy? 00:36:52 - Dealing with Volatile Times 00:39:16 - Dealing With Negative Sentiment to Tech 00:41:38 - Can ASEAN Unicorns Ever Surpass American Unicorns? 00:43:35 - Can Carsome Go Global? 00:45:22 - Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs 00:47:46 - What Defines Passion? 00:50:10 - What Will Light Your Fire? 00:51:04 - What Doesn't Kill You .... 00:53:30 - Lessons From WeWork 00:55:08 - What the Future Holds for Carsome 00:56:55 - The Biggest Risks? 00:58:03 - Where Carsome is in 6 Months .. --- FOLLOW ERIC HERE: IG: https://www.instagram.com/ericccccccc/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Im.Eric.Cheng LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericcheng85/ FOLLOW CARSOME HERE: IG: https://www.instagram.com/carsomemalaysia/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Carsome.my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/carsome/ Follow Chuang here: URL: http://www.domore.my/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/ Follow DoMore here: WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/ Enjoy Life! Carpe Dieme!