Welcome to Episode 118!

STIMY Episode 118 features Chen Chow Yeoh.

Speak to anyone in the Southeast Asian startup scene and they’ll likely have heard of Chen Chow and have a tremendous amount of respect for him.

He’s an OG in the space:

• Co-Founder of Fave – one of the fastest growing fintech platform in Southeast Asia
• Co-Founder of KFit.com – which revolutionised how people approached fitness in Asia Pacific
• Regional Operations Director in APAC & COO (Malaysia) for Groupon

But he never had a plan. 😅

Chen Chow:

❌ Was one of the top 8 people who scored the worst in his English exams at Cornell University;

❌ Didn’t get a promotion at Accenture (and cried about it ☹️)

❌ Landed his role at Jobstreet by chance

❌ Was rendered obsolete in Groupon when he joined – he was hired for a sales role but by the time he finished serving notice at his previous company, that role was obsolete!

But:

🔥 At Accenture, he did eventually get that promotion. By buckling down & putting in the work.

🔥 He did odd jobs at Groupon & within 3 weeks of joining, was promoted to COO!

🔥 He worked with Joel Neoh to turn Groupon Taiwan from a $1 million loss making monster to $8k in profits in 8 months!

🔥 He has never formally applied for any jobs – people always go to him

But he is not like his charismatic, visionary counterpart.

He just does the work.

Great work, in fact.

And this, is his story.

So are you ready?

Let’s go 😎