The truth is that Steve is a fairly old engineer who's been working his entire life for big companies working off his soul for nothing but a plain salary. He's

The truth is that Steve is a fairly old engineer who's been working his entire life for big companies working off his soul for nothing but a plain salary. He's not achieved anything for himself or progressed to any top level position in either companies and probably just got bored of doing the same stuff for too long now. Google has been innovating in many areas and perhaps Steve wasn't part of it for too long so he craved some change and in order to justify the move from Google to an Uber clone you gotta tell yourself how boring his current employer is to convince yourself to such a change. Grab is a startup in a foreign country far away from silicon valley, everything seems exciting, different and ground breaking when in reality it's not. They are just cloning Uber in their own region, perhaps even with the hope to be bought up by someone like Uber one day. I have been to South East Asia many times, actually I've been to all countries in South East Asia and many islands and I'm going to Asia for another 5 months this year and apart from the normal cultural differences which you have there's not much difference to Uber (or a clone) there than anywhere else. I think he should chill out for a bit and first experience it for at least a year before claiming any groundbreaking wisdom he thinks he got from visiting this part of the world for the first time in his life probably.