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S-E Asia a 'goldmine of untapped opportunity': Grab co-founder

Everybody is looking to the region amid the bleak global outlook, adds Tan Hooi Ling

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EVEN though South-east Asia remains underserved, solutions that are "copy and paste" from developed markets would not work well here, ride-hailing giant Grab's co-founder Tan Hooi Ling said.

"Everybody thought that they could copy and paste solutions from these more developed markets, pop them into South-east Asia and it would work well for our customers here," Ms Tan added, to an audience on the second day of the Forbes Global CEO Conference 2019 held in Singapore.

"That wasn't quite true...

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