BusinessWeek Asia’s Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs
I couldn’t believe myself when I first learned about the news that I was chosen by BusinessWeek as one of the Asia’s Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs.
Until today, I’ve never consider myself as a successful entrepreneur. Even though I’ve started quite a few sites and services that have gained me some recognition, I’m mainly doing them for my love for technology and the love of making things. I enjoy the challenges of making technology useful for people. Until now, I’m still starting up new businesses (the latest one being Widgeo.us) with the core value of making technology the way people (or most people) would want it.
The company that’s being featured on Businessweek - Ping.sg runs almost entirely on the basis that the site is built for the community, thus the community would decide on how they want it to be. I love to see that things I can build are being used by a lot of people, and that people are loving it. That, to me, is more valuable than any amount of revenue that I can generate. Maybe my last statement is against the name of being an entrepreneur, personally I’m always considering myself an enthusiastic technologist than an entrepreneur. This is also the reason why I am directly involved in technological development for all of my sites/companies so far.
I am flattered by being recognized by one of the top business magazines in the world as one of the Asia’s top 25 young entrepreneurs. I am not who I am today alone, thanks to everyone who have supported me all along.
Congratulations to all my friends who have made it to the list too. Surprisingly, I personally know at least 4 other top Asia’s young entrepreneurs.
And, I would really appreciate if you could vote for me.
For now, I will continue to build more and better things. Anyway, it’s not so much the desire to do business but the love of technology is what getting me into all of these.
November 19th, 2007 / 22 Comments / Trackback