Ep 96: Being Mr Stingy | Aaron Tang (Blogger & Country Manager of Malaysia's First Regulated Crypto Exchange)

Aaron Tang is a popular Malaysian blogger known as Mr Stingy (on
personal finance & career), and the Country Manager of Luno -
Malaysia’s first regulated cryptocurrency exchange.


In many ways, Aaron’s career has been dictated by his “maximizer
personality” & desire to make the greatest use of the
resources he had. 


This has resulted in some pretty ingenious moves, including a use
of multiple credit card schemes to pay off his RM58k student debt
at the start of his career!


In this episode, we explore Aaron’s journey from a high flying
oil & gas career to the world of social entrepreneurship (he
took a 50% pay cut!), why he started the Mr Stingy blog and how
that landed him a job in the crypto world as the current Country
Manager of Luno. 


And of course, all things crypto/NFTs/DAOs!





Highlights:


3:06 Maximiser personality

6:51 Being a Petronas scholar & breaking his bond

9:18 Paying off his remaining RM58k student debt with credit
cards (p/s: not financial advice!)

12:46 Making a contrarian move in his career

17:15 Tendering at a bad time

19:04 Taking a 50% pay cut

24:21 Maximising profits v helping the greatest number of
people

25:20 Feedback loops

25:50 Starting the Mr Stingy blog

34:46 How Aaron started writing for the Huffington Post

35:46 How blogging got Aaron a job in the crypto space

36:54 Discovering bitcoin

38:05 Putting skin in the game

41:47 HODL & toxic positivity

42:43 Going through a baptism of fire as Employee #1

43:44 Becoming the Country Manager of Luno 

45:06 Being a regulated digital asset exchange

47:35 What regulators are most concerned about

48:55 El Salvador

49:42 Anti-money laundering concerns

53:50 Algorithmic stablecoins

54:35 Why Luna crashed

58:31 Are play-to-earn games all about insider trading?

1:00:14 Eating humble pie

1:01:44 Big idea that Aaron has changed his mind on

1:05:34 Underdogs

1:06:48 DAOs






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