A list of all the episodes you will find in the So This Is My Why podcast that features people with an entrepreneurial background, including show notes, links and other episodes that you might find interesting.
Loh Lik Peng is the founder & CEO of Unlisted Collection. In this STIMY episode, Lik Peng shares his journey from being a commercial litigator to an established hotelier with 9 Michelin-starred restaurants under his belt!
Ep 140: The No-Nonsense ‘Lucky’ Hotelier?! | Loh Lik Peng (Founder, Unlisted Collection) Read More »
Fong Wai Kheng is the fourth generation owner of Tong Heng – Singapore’s top confectionary shop that’s been around for 100 years and sells its trademark diamond shaped egg tart. Here is Tong Heng’s origin story & what it’s like running a family business.
Ep 141: Inheriting a 100-year-old family business | Fong (Co-Owner, Tong Heng) Read More »
Special STIMY Singapore subseries featuring Loh Lik Peng (Unlisted Collection), Woon Tai Ho (CNA), Lucas Lu (Zoom Asia), Arthur Kiong (Far East), Khoo Swee Chiong, Kenny Chan (Kinokuniya) and Fong (Tong Heng).
Ep 139: Special Sneak Peek of Singapore Subseries! Read More »
Steve Chao is the founder of Signal Flare Productions and investigative journalist and war correspondent for Al-Jazeera, CNN, VICE, CTV (Canadian) etc. This STIMY interview was recorded in front of a live audience at KL Podfest 2024
Simon Alexander Ong is a bestselling author, international keynote speaker and business strategist. His work has seen him invited onto Sky News and BBC to be interviewed, while he has been featured in the likes of Forbes and Harvard Business Review. He has also spoken at some of the planet’s most successful organisations such as Barclays, Salesforces, Adobe, EY and Microsoft. And his debut book Energize, published by Penguin in 2022 became an instant bestseller, receiving endorsements from the likes of New York Times bestselling authors Simon Sinek, Marie Forleo and Marshall Goldsmith. In 2023, Energize was also awarded Book of the Year within the Wellness & Wellbeing category at The Business Book Awards.
Prestine Davekhaw is the founder of MalaysianPAYGAP (wage transparency platform) & Disappearing Jobs (cultural photographer who documents jobs that are disappearing in modern times) and she shares her life story on the So This Is My Why podcast.
Adlin Yusman, Managing Director of Endeavor Malaysia, shares his life story e.g. launching 2 failed startups and now, building the Malaysian startup ecosystem.
Terence Lee is the editor-in-chief of Tech in Asia, Southeast Asia’s leading tech business media, events, and jobs platform. Our goal is to build and serve Asia’s tech and startup community.
As a journalist, I seek to hold up a mirror to society and digest emerging trends. As a tech enthusiast, I enjoy harnessing it in my work, while also making sense of it from various angles. And as a leader, I combine talent, strategy, and tools to build a cutting edge organization.
I lead an editorial team that delivers investigative journalism, data, analysis, and timely reporting to thousands of paying subscribers and hundreds of thousands of readers each month.
I’ve been involved in all aspects editorial operations: from high-level strategic planning to shoe leather reporting to tinkering with no-code tools and APIs. I track a wide range of industries, from ecommerce to crypto to AI.
In 2001, Charlie Todd founded the comedy collective Improv Everywhere, a New York group that pioneered large-scale surprise public performances, long before anyone had heard of the term “flash mob.” Charlie was one of the original YouTubers, and Improv Everywhere was one of the very first comedy channels on the platform in early 2006. To date the channel has over half a billion views. With viral hits like the legendary Grand Central freeze and the absurdly silly No Pants Subway Ride, Improv Everywhere has created iconic projects that have entered the zeitgeist and spread to all corners of the globe. Charlie’s success with Improv Everywhere has led to a career in television, recently serving as executive producer and director of the Disney+ series “Pixar In Real Life.”
Fabien Riggall is the founder of Secret Cinema & Lost. The former is premised on the idea that films can be turned into large-scale real life, cultural experiences in abandoned spaces.