ICYMI: Plan it like a WAR - Dr Finian Tan (Chairman, Vickers Venture Partners)

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Back in STIMY Ep 30, we met Dr Finian Tan - Chairman &
Co-Founder of Vickers Venture Partners - a $3 billion deep tech
venture capital fund based out of Singapore. Some things he’s
done: 


founder of J.Aron (APAC trading arm of Goldman Sachs)

Deputy Secretary of Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and
Industry, where he was tasked with creating 

Chairman of Singapore’s  $1 billion TIF Fund, to create
the Silicon Valley of the East in Singapore

Executive deputy chairman of A*Star 

Founding partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Eplanet, a
Silicon Valley VC that invested in Skype & Hotmail. 






While at DFJ, Dr Finian Tan made his first & most well-known
investment in a little-known startup called Baidu. 





This is a ICYMI snippet that I felt really illustrates Dr
Finian’s character & it happened all the way back when he was
still a student.


He swept ALL the book prizes, and got perfect scores while at
university.


How did he do it?


By planning it like a WAR.





️Listen to the rest of Dr Finian's episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJELxqip89M 





Show notes: https://www.sothisismywhy.com/30 





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