Startups

Woon Tai Ho - founder of Channel News Asia and Author - shares his life story and career advice with Ling Yah, host and producer of the So This Is My Why podcast

Ep 146: Is ‘Success’ a Painful Burden? | Woon Tai Ho (Founder of Channel News Asia & author]

Woon Tai Ho Is the founder of Channel News Asia and prolific author of books like the Memoir Trilogy by George Yeo. Tai Ho shares his thought on making big career pivots, waiting to die, his biggest regrets, why we should prioritise relationships, family and partners over career and so much more

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Adlin Yusman, Managing Director of Endeavor Malaysia, on the So This Is My Why podcast with Ling Yah - on startups, entrepreneurship, raising funds from VCs, failures, giving up, bad hiring decisions

Ep 133: If It’s Easy, It Must Be A Scam + Hunting for 100 Cockroaches?! | Adlin Yusman (Managing Director, Endeavor Malaysia)

Adlin Yusman, Managing Director of Endeavor Malaysia, shares his life story e.g. launching 2 failed startups and now, building the Malaysian startup ecosystem.

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Terence Lee - editor-in-chief at Tech in Asia, $20 million purchase by Singapore Press Holdings - So This Is My Why podcast episode 132 interview

Ep 132: The Inside Scoop on Asia’s $30 Million Media Empire | Terence Lee, Editor-In-Chief at Tech in Asia

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.

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Fabien Riggall - founder, Secret Cinema & Lost

Ep 129: Bringing Moulin Rouge & Abandoned Warehouses to Life?! | Fabien Riggall (Founder, Secret Cinema)

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.

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Paul Millerd = The Pathless Path - So This Is My Why Podcast

Ep 126: Rejecting $200k for the Pathless Path?! | Paul Millerd (Solopreneur, Author & Podcaster)

Paul Millerd is a former McKinsey consultant turned solopreneur, author and podcaster. He once walked away from a $200k/year pay check and blew up his life to build the pathless path for himself!

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Tanya Zakowich founder Pink Pencil Math tutoring, former NASA rocket launch pad builder, Boeing, Hyperloop One Elon Musk, viral tiktoker in Singapore

Ep 125: From Building Launch Pads at NASA to 1.9 Million TikTok Followers?! | Tanya Zakowich (Founder, Pink Pencil Math)

Tanya Zakowich is the founder of Pink Pencil Math – a viral TikTok account that teaches math with 1.9M followers. Before, she was building rocket launch pads at NASA, Boeing and Hyperloop One!

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Ling Yah - So This is My Why Podcast + Dr Giovanna Graziosi Casimiro [Decentraland XR Metaverse Producer]

Ep 123: Regret What You Tried, Not What You Gave Up On | Dr. Giovanna Graziosi Casimiro (Ex-Metaverse Producer, Decentraland Foundation)

Dr. Giovanna Graziosi Casimiro has had a unique career. She is the current Head of Production at Phygicode and former Metaverse Producer at Decentraland Foundation and Head of Metaverse Fashion Week.

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Ling Yah - So This is My Why Podcast + Peter Yong (Mr Money TV)

Ep 122: I Am NOT Your Father! | Peter Yong aka Mr Money TV, the 7-figure YouTube Businessman

Mr Money TV aka Peter Yong is one of the most popular personal finance YouTubers with 153k+ subscribers! This is his journey from being a fresh graduate to earning RM 250k/year by the age of 30, to selling his BMW and giving everything up just as his first son was born to go all in with his then nascent YouTube business, which now makes 7-figures!

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