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Singapore needs a Role model. For years parents and teachers in Singapore encourage their children and student to stay stable and follow the traditional way of
by ripitrust 11y ago
Singapore needs a Role model. For years parents and teachers in Singapore encourage their children and student to stay stable and follow the traditional way of success - work hard, steady income and promotion. The role models of Singapore society are always those who did so. in fact, it is not even possible to name a sound,successful entrepreneur. But in a real startup ecosystem (US and China in particular), the role models come from the entrepreneur world. Their success encourage people to take risk.
If Singapore can have one or two Mark Zuckberg or Jack Ma, it will greatly help the ecosystem to grow
- ValentineC 11y ago> The role models of Singapore society are always those who did so. in fact, it is not even possible to name a sound,successful entrepreneur. There's, among others, Sim Wong Hoo [1], the founder of Creative, and Tan Min Liang [2], the CEO of Razer. I think a problem comes from these companies preferring to identify themselves as "foreign", as being "local" is, ironically, not looked upon as favourably in Singapore. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_Wong_Hoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_Wong_Hoo [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-Liang_Tan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-Liang_Tan