Christopher Quek

My startup portfolio companies have built a huge regional ops HQs, not just one, but I think three or four of them have done that as well. So it's coming back to full circle and I do understand the Malaysian psyche and I feel that I'm not coming back as someone who is unknown to the Malaysian sea. I know it for the last 20 years.

My startup portfolio companies have built a huge regional ops HQs, not just one, but I think three or four of them have done that as well. So it's coming back to full circle and I do understand the Malaysian psyche and I feel that I'm not coming back as someone who is unknown to the Malaysian sea. I know it for the last 20 years.

So I think it's just to give a little bit of context when, you know, some people when they go overseas to another country, does not mean that's the end. You may actually end up going back there once again. So it's just a little bit very interesting about life experiences, how it comes back to you.

So I think it's just to give a little bit of context when, you know, some people when they go overseas to another country, does not mean that's the end. You may actually end up going back there once again. So it's just a little bit very interesting about life experiences, how it comes back to you.

Wish I could tell you, Vince, that I'm a very organised person. I am a very good forecaster of my life, knowing where my life was going. To be honest, it was more of circumstances and situations and opportunities that just appeared. If you ask me, like, some certain...

Wish I could tell you, Vince, that I'm a very organised person. I am a very good forecaster of my life, knowing where my life was going. To be honest, it was more of circumstances and situations and opportunities that just appeared. If you ask me, like, some certain...

crossroads in my life for example heading off to Malaysia instead of China I felt that was the right thing to do in fact it was part of my prompting was a very good high school friend of mine just told me do you want to be the son of Mr Quack or do you want to be Christopher Quack if you want to go back to China running that whole factory everybody knows Mr Quack and you are just his son.

crossroads in my life for example heading off to Malaysia instead of China I felt that was the right thing to do in fact it was part of my prompting was a very good high school friend of mine just told me do you want to be the son of Mr Quack or do you want to be Christopher Quack if you want to go back to China running that whole factory everybody knows Mr Quack and you are just his son.

But if you actually go out there and do things on your own, no matter how scary it is, to be very honest, when I went into Malaysia, I had no contacts. I only had my university friends who were willing to open doors and talk to me. I didn't have as much resources as I could. I was really more on my own during that time.

But if you actually go out there and do things on your own, no matter how scary it is, to be very honest, when I went into Malaysia, I had no contacts. I only had my university friends who were willing to open doors and talk to me. I didn't have as much resources as I could. I was really more on my own during that time.

But I feel that is the most biggest takeaway that I got out of it was I found myself. I found my identity. I found myself going through a phase of learning and growing because I'm trying to put it into context with another friend, a very wealthy second-gen family. Family maybe has about $300-400 billion worth of net wealth all across the world.

But I feel that is the most biggest takeaway that I got out of it was I found myself. I found my identity. I found myself going through a phase of learning and growing because I'm trying to put it into context with another friend, a very wealthy second-gen family. Family maybe has about $300-400 billion worth of net wealth all across the world.

And when you want to talk about his life, his lifestyle is just outrageous, extravagant. But he did tell me one time that he feels that he doesn't know who he is. And I think this was just something that if you ask me to reflect back, was there a common theme? Yes, it's about every season. It's about discovering a new part about yourself that... you did not realize.

And when you want to talk about his life, his lifestyle is just outrageous, extravagant. But he did tell me one time that he feels that he doesn't know who he is. And I think this was just something that if you ask me to reflect back, was there a common theme? Yes, it's about every season. It's about discovering a new part about yourself that... you did not realize.

And not only every season, I will set a very high bar or a very high vision for myself. Like when I started off running the incubator, at a point in time, Southeast Asia and Singapore were a cowboy town when it comes to the startup ecosystem. And I decided that I wanted to change all of that.

And not only every season, I will set a very high bar or a very high vision for myself. Like when I started off running the incubator, at a point in time, Southeast Asia and Singapore were a cowboy town when it comes to the startup ecosystem. And I decided that I wanted to change all of that.

I wanted to say, let's just pay it forward, give free advice, build this ecosystem up so that we get fantastic entrepreneurs that start to grow out of this ecosystem and make real change for Southeast Asia. And I think that was my personal goal at that time. And it's changed. I will feel free to ask me, but how has it changed? But I think it's just to give you a little bit of the element of...

I wanted to say, let's just pay it forward, give free advice, build this ecosystem up so that we get fantastic entrepreneurs that start to grow out of this ecosystem and make real change for Southeast Asia. And I think that was my personal goal at that time. And it's changed. I will feel free to ask me, but how has it changed? But I think it's just to give you a little bit of the element of...

What at every stage is about really discovering yourself, which is really an exciting journey. You don't realize that you have actually a lot of things about yourself that you haven't discovered.

What at every stage is about really discovering yourself, which is really an exciting journey. You don't realize that you have actually a lot of things about yourself that you haven't discovered.