Kelvin Teo
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 15 Mar
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basically will be on track to be the first group of hardest citizens to lose their job upon graduation.
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And at that time I was uh I was getting married, so uh like I just was a bit it was an interesting time to tell my parents in law that hey, your son in law is gonna be out of job very soon.
When it comes to let's say uh custom acquisition also, for every ten customers that I meet, I can and g give me a document, I approve two.
Meaning that I waste eight of them or so.
And that I need to reacquire them as customers, right?
What if I can actually acquire them and keep them for longer?
Reminish six times the GTV in three years, despite
Knowing that much about payments, and one of the major lessons is that org structure is the last thing you should be integrating.
What you should be integrating is mindset, thinking, culture, values, all the things that are below the surface.
We're very fortunate that the core group stayed with us and integrated with Funding Society's team very well, and now it has become an integral part of our business.
We were among the first to conduct a layoff which was quite unheard of in the industry because to us is that the writing was all that this has to happen.
It was a very painful model.
because despite in our view doing the right thing and turns out that all the team members did get great jobs from Grab and Amazon and Facebook and Blackwell and so forth but we were destroyed in social media in news and whatnot as if we are the only company that screwed up.
So, maybe a quick introduction.
I'm Calvin, a co-founder of Funding Societies.
We are the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia.
We exist to really empower the growth of small and medium businesses, and we do it in two ways.
Number one is by solving one of the biggest problems they have, which is really working capital loans.
So, really providing all forms of short-term working capital loans to small and medium businesses.
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