Do More - Take Charge of Your Life

500 Global’s Khailee Ng – Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Philosopher   Khailee Ng is among Malaysia’s tech successes, having exited two startups with Says. Com and Groupsmore, and funding, through the venture capital firm 500 Global, seven regional unicorns, including Grab, Carousell, Bukalapak and Carsome.  With success having come early to him and plenty of time to consider ‘Life’ at a mor...

Stashaway’s Michel Ferrario - Can Robo-Advisors Make Your Financial Dreams Come True?  Michele Ferrario, one of Stashaway’s three co-founders and its CEO, shares his journey, the state of tech markets, planning for retirement, financial literacy and being an entrepreneur, among many other things.  (Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whos...

Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar - A Humble Malaysian Super-Achiever Tan Sri Wahid came from humble beginnings to become one of Malaysia’s most successful corporate leaders in the new millennium, successfully leading four major organisations in infrastructure development (UEM), telecommunications (Telekom Malaysia), financial services (Maybank) and investment management (Permodalan Nasional Bhd).  He was...

Few folks, if ever, see their childhood dreams come true. Even fewer make it happen in their forties.  For Jewelen’s Ivy Teong, that jump was made, becoming a jewellery designer and business owner, in her second career.  This is her story.  --- FOLLOW IVY HERE:  IG: @juwelen_design   URL: https://www.juwelendesign.com/   YT:  @ivyteong570  Blog: https://ivyteong.blogspot.com/

Dwi Emas’ Anne Tham - From Tuition Teacher to Education Entrepreneur  Anne Tham could have been any one of us. The only difference is that she took the plunge. To try and make a difference.  Otherwise she would have remained a tuition teacher, griping at the system’s many flaws, like so many other Malaysians.  Instead, she is today the head of a number of schools trying to make a difference, fully...

MIT’s Pulkit Agrawal - Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?  Should AI be feared or welcomed? Humankind is still in a quandary on this issue.  Best to speak to the experts then, in the form of Pulkit Agrawal, who is an Assistant Professor at MIT, building Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interaction systems for commercial application.  His areas of study include robotics, computer vision...

Kavin Jay – Comedians, Malaysia’s REAL Journalists  Kavin Jay is one of Malaysia’s funniest men, recognised as such by the Netflix special he was invited to record in 2018, titled ‘Everybody Calm Down’. He is also one of Malaysia’s most original and ‘real’ comedians, driven to his art by a very unique set of circumstances.  Here, he talks to Chuang about his journey to comedy, evolving along the w...

MIT’s Sanjay Sarma: Why Indian CEOs Are Taking Over the World  The Asian Century is well upon us but the rise of her people on the world stage has not been a linear one. Fraught with complexities and clearly divisive, the reasons for this video’s title are nonetheless fascinating – and instructive.  Today’s chat is with Sanjay Sarma, the brilliant and affable CEO of the Asia School of Business in...

#female #technology #ceo #nft #adobe #creativecloud   Acestar’s Natalie Sit - Never Forget the Taste of Poverty    Natalie Sit is the multiple award-winning owner of software services firm Acestar, a platinum reseller of Adobe Creative Cloud licences, having reached the pinnacle despite having no tertiary education, the daughter of noodle sellers in Ipoh.  This is her story, as told to Khoo Hsu Ch...

#retirement  #malaysia  #aged  EPF’s Nurhisham Hussein - Malaysia’s Retirement Crisis Is Already Upon Us    With costs outrunning salaries and a rapidly ageing population, Malaysia’s retirement time bomb has already exploded.  Nurhisham Hussein, a longtime professional acquaintance and Chief Strategy Officer at the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), Malaysia’s largest pension fund, talks to Khoo Hsu...

#China #War #ASEAN Loh Wei Hoong - China: an Autocratic Warmonger or ASEAN’s Biggest Opportunity?  China is the biggest enigma of our time. For us in ASEAN, she is either our biggest threat or our greatest opportunity. Or can China be both?  The more viewpoints we have, the more data points we can obtain to triangulate our opinions to form an educated guess. Loh Wei Hoong, a longtime educator, inv...

#war #inequality #nuclear #economy    Professor KS Jomo - Facing Up to War, the Military Industrial Complex, Food Security and Central Banks  Professor KS Jomo is one of Asia's most prominent economists of our time, having spent much of his career examining the challenges besetting the growth and development of emerging market economies in Asia and Africa. This, in the context of the policies prac...

Pemandu’s Dato' Sri Idris Jala: The Leader Malaysia Could Have Had - But Didn’t  #Leadership #Turnaround #MAS #Proton #Malaysia  PEMANDU's Dato' Sri Idris Jala - The Leader Malaysia Could Have Had - But Didn't  Born in Sarawak as a devout Kelabit Christian, Dato' Sri Idris Jala wasn’t meant to work at Shell for 23 years. Nor was he meant to head Malaysia Airlines, help Proton in its turnaround str...

#property #realestate #reit #malaysia #klangvalley #singapore  Knight Frank’s Justin Chee - Is The Malaysian Property Market Finally Coming Back?  Knight Frank Malaysia’s Executive Director Justin Chee shares his thoughts on the Malaysian property market and the new areas for property investment, which has always been a good hedge against inflation.  (Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for...

#investing #antifragile #change  Penjana Kapital’s Taufiq Iskandar: ‘Read, Adapt, Antifragile’ Malaysians have a chance to prosper in an uncertain yet unexciting future but first they must learn to shed old habits while adopting new approaches that appear daunting at first, says Taufiq Iskandar, CEO of Penjana Kapital, whose mandate is to assist in ensuring Malaysia’s success.  CONTENTS  00:00 - I...

#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 Ventu...

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...

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...

#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 i...

#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 Suc...

#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 rubb...

#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...

#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 u...

#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 So...

#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 lik...