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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