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Christopher Quek

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Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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 just 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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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 just 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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

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.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

I will feel free to ask me how it hasn't 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 realise that you have actually a lot of things about yourself that you haven't discovered.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

I will feel free to ask me how it hasn't 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 realise that you have actually a lot of things about yourself that you haven't discovered.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

Yeah, so it was quite an interesting season in 2015 where Singapore celebrated its 50th birthday as a nation. And it somehow triggered me a lot about how Singapore was evolving itself Singapore evolved itself out of necessity, where it built a whole nation, a workforce of engineers, scientists, bankers, lawyers, doctors, specialists, if you want to call it, you name it, they are there.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

Yeah, so it was quite an interesting season in 2015 where Singapore celebrated its 50th birthday as a nation. And it somehow triggered me a lot about how Singapore was evolving itself Singapore evolved itself out of necessity, where it built a whole nation, a workforce of engineers, scientists, bankers, lawyers, doctors, specialists, if you want to call it, you name it, they are there.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

But what actually happened was we started losing a whole generation of entrepreneurs.

Chief Change Officer
#131 From Family Empire to Personal Legacy: Chris Quek’s Bold Quest for Independence - Part One

But what actually happened was we started losing a whole generation of entrepreneurs.

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