How Singapore built a startup ecosystem from scratch

BACK when Grab's poster boy Anthony Tan still slept on the office floor during crunch-time, a venture capitalist tried, as they always do, to see into the future.

He told Mr Tan that his scrappy startup could one day be worth much more than his father's company Tan Chong Motor, a household name in Malaysia.

But only if he played his cards well. And one of those cards was to cross the Causeway.