Anthony Chow
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 8 Mar
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At one point, I think we had about 20 units and was making more money than our job as a full-time data scientist, right?
So that was kind of what we were doing on as a side hustle.
But one of the challenges that we found, you know, running this on the side was, you know, passing keys to guests.
You know, uh, we have full-time jobs.
So and we're working very hard to have full-time jobs.
So we couldn't meet our guests like 2 p.m.
when they wanted to check in.
So we started design, put our own technology.
Background into use, and we started designing our own smart locks and our own smart home ecosystem using Z-Wave at the time to ensure that we are able to check guests in remotely and then when they check out we can switch off the AC and stuff like that.
No.
And that was working kind of well for us.
So this entire journey, I think we ran it for about one to two years.
That was about 2014, 2015, around there.
And what happened around the time was Airbnb became illegal.
So the government actually regulated.
That there's no such thing as Airbnb anymore in Singapore, you can't do it.
Um, and so we had to shut down the entire business.
So because we were not landlords, uh, we rented and we sublented on it, and so we made a bit of loss on it.
But uh, because of the experience running, you know, this portfolio of uh Airbnb properties, you know, we realized that the solution kind of we hacked together this whole smart home system for ourselves, and we realized that this actually has a lot of value for anyone who's running Airbnb property management at scale.
Right.
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