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My insight is that entrepreneurs are 80 per cent trained and 20 per cent born with it.
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To be a good founder, you have to be disagreeable, but humility is also needed.
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Founders have to make decisions with little to no data within a certain deadline, so they have to grab as much knowledge as they can and process it to figure out what decisions they need to make.
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We have to look at founders as human beings. They are not money-making machines, they are human.
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Grab and Gojek brought the spotlight to the region by raising money around the world and selling South-east Asia to investors.
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Before 2014, when I travelled to Indonesia or Vietnam for a conference, there would always be a translator. Now, you do not need one.