#ICYMI 

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 

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