On My Own Terms: Career Switch for Millennials in Singapore
On My Own Terms: Career Switch for Millennials in Singapore
2. Matthew Low on stumbling into entrepreneurship, finding the right business partner, co-founding a chatbot tech startup with no technical background and advice on joining startups and making career moves
If you are curious about joining the tech startup scene 🧑💻, aspiring to be an entrepreneur or thinking about making a big career change 💼, do not miss this episode.
Matthew Low started his career at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore in 2009 before moving on to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). He stumbled into entrepreneurship which led him to build a content marketing agency. In 2016, he became cofounder at AiChat, a chatbot 💬 solution for enterprises and spent the next 4.5 years being the Chief Marketing and Investment Officer.
In 2021, he joined Universal Aquaculture Singapore, a company whose mission is to build global food systems of tomorrow, producing sustainable seafood 🦐. He served as its Chief Commercial Officer.
This podcast episode was recorded in Sep 2021.
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About the host John Lim:
John Lim has had an unconventional career by Singapore / Asian standards - with several career switches. He started his career in banking before co-founding a laser tag events company. After building the business from ground-up, growing the team to 20+ and running Singapore's largest indoor laser tag center, he joined an early-stage tech startup to lead business development across Southeast Asia. In 2019, he took a leap of faith to join the e-commerce industry, seemingly unknown sector, until a few months later when Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees.
While John finds himself lucky to have 'survived' the career switches relatively unscathed, he has never forgotten how it feels like to be at the crossroads of your career and life. Now, he has started this podcast - to provide the resources and perspectives he wished he had - and to help you make the most of your career to live your best life.
Join him as he speaks with unconventional career changers and risk-takers, taps into their experiences and perspectives and discusses all things career. Together, they will provide you nuggets of wisdom, inspiration and actionable insights to start living life on your own terms.
