Karl Mak’s burning desire to be an entrepreneur consumed his entire life. However, he’s the first to admit that he wasn’t interested in the “concept of money”. He was successful in real estate, but didn’t want to pursue it. An initial blogshop business he started with his close friend and current business partner Adrian Ang failed and wrecked their relationship. A software firm Karl started also went down the drain.
Most would have given up, but Karl was made of sterner stuff.
The co-founder of Hepmil Media Group, which owns and operates multiple digital media brands, reveals how both Adrian and he turned a Facebook meme page into a multi-million-dollar digital empire—by accident—and how the growth of SGAG also coincided with his growth as a husband and father.
Episode List
- Episode 1: Ankiti Bose on the battles she faced while at the helm of Zilingo.
- Episode 2: Tjin Lee addresses that controversial social media post and why she will continue speaking out.
- Episode 3: Tan Shin Hui gets honest about the difficulties being a female leader in a hospitality business.
- Episode 5: Joel Leong looks back at ShopBack’s growth from a scrappy start-up to its current unicorn status after its latest funding round.
- Episode 6: Anna Lim chronicles the Soup Spoon journey of the past 20 years and her dreams of building the “Starbucks of soup”.
- Episode 7: Magnus Grimeland shares why we need more children and the big bets he’s making on the future as the founder of Antler.
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