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Christopher Quek

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Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

have more food, more quantity and decided to sell it cheaper to a poorer province where those villagers were now able to obtain more quantity of food for their families. So I think that was a little bit of the very interesting heartwarming stories that we see on and off here and there. And the best part about it, we're making money as well.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

have more food, more quantity and decided to sell it cheaper to a poorer province where those villagers were now able to obtain more quantity of food for their families. So I think that was a little bit of the very interesting heartwarming stories that we see on and off here and there. And the best part about it, we're making money as well.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

It's not that we are not, we are doing well, we are making money. It's just that we have made things more efficient to the way that society works in Southeast Asia. And yeah, I think that was just some of the very interesting anecdotes that we're going through our venture capital journey.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

It's not that we are not, we are doing well, we are making money. It's just that we have made things more efficient to the way that society works in Southeast Asia. And yeah, I think that was just some of the very interesting anecdotes that we're going through our venture capital journey.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

Not just investing in the company, not just helping them grow, commercialize the business, talking to the family businesses to become client, but really reaching the end consumer. Realising that the impact that we gave to the end consumer is something so significantly different now. We didn't realise that kind of ripple down effect would have been so much bigger than we thought it was.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

Not just investing in the company, not just helping them grow, commercialize the business, talking to the family businesses to become client, but really reaching the end consumer. Realising that the impact that we gave to the end consumer is something so significantly different now. We didn't realise that kind of ripple down effect would have been so much bigger than we thought it was.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

In fact, we are talking to a second-gen family where this person is just transforming his whole family business towards FMCG, a brand. And I can't say too much yet, but when it comes, I will definitely announce that. And it's really exciting to see Southeast Asia is not only being

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

In fact, we are talking to a second-gen family where this person is just transforming his whole family business towards FMCG, a brand. And I can't say too much yet, but when it comes, I will definitely announce that. And it's really exciting to see Southeast Asia is not only being

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

supported by Southeast Asia entrepreneurs, but you're getting international entrepreneurs deciding to say that Southeast Asia is a great market. I'm going to try to do something about it. I'm trying to make a change in the way Southeast Asia operates. And it's always for the better. It's exciting to me to know that we are starting to embrace companies even as far as going out of Southeast Asia.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

supported by Southeast Asia entrepreneurs, but you're getting international entrepreneurs deciding to say that Southeast Asia is a great market. I'm going to try to do something about it. I'm trying to make a change in the way Southeast Asia operates. And it's always for the better. It's exciting to me to know that we are starting to embrace companies even as far as going out of Southeast Asia.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

And I would feel that there were going to be very interesting dynamics as we engage more of these second gens that's coming out from other parts of outside of Southeast Asia. And all you can say is that their diversity of views, the diversity of mindsets are just going to improve things better. And they're going to be sharing a lot of best practices over to the

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

And I would feel that there were going to be very interesting dynamics as we engage more of these second gens that's coming out from other parts of outside of Southeast Asia. And all you can say is that their diversity of views, the diversity of mindsets are just going to improve things better. And they're going to be sharing a lot of best practices over to the

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

next generation business owners here in Southeast Asia. And I think that really excites me where you get two of them together, they have a conversation and person A teaches person B what he has been doing and person B says, I'm going to bring this back over to my family business to endorse, to apply it, to work on it and see the improvement.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

next generation business owners here in Southeast Asia. And I think that really excites me where you get two of them together, they have a conversation and person A teaches person B what he has been doing and person B says, I'm going to bring this back over to my family business to endorse, to apply it, to work on it and see the improvement.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

So it's exciting to see that kind of a network effect that we're seeing, not just for our startups, but the next gens who are entrepreneurs themselves. They are also somewhat, in a sense, a pseudo kind of startup founders themselves, trying to transform a business to become something very vastly different. Yeah, I think that's the really exciting thing about it.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

So it's exciting to see that kind of a network effect that we're seeing, not just for our startups, but the next gens who are entrepreneurs themselves. They are also somewhat, in a sense, a pseudo kind of startup founders themselves, trying to transform a business to become something very vastly different. Yeah, I think that's the really exciting thing about it.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

Being an entrepreneur and also supporting entrepreneurs because you are just happily living in your own world, coming up with new ideas, brainstorming to find the best solution. I think that really is something that excites me a lot.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

Being an entrepreneur and also supporting entrepreneurs because you are just happily living in your own world, coming up with new ideas, brainstorming to find the best solution. I think that really is something that excites me a lot.

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

When you talk to fellow next-gen business owners, there is a lot of emotions that will come out when we describe this whole relationship with our parents. It's complex because it's personal and it's business at the same time, right?

Chief Change Officer
#299 Chris Quek: Building the Next Gen, Starting With His Own

When you talk to fellow next-gen business owners, there is a lot of emotions that will come out when we describe this whole relationship with our parents. It's complex because it's personal and it's business at the same time, right?