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FELIX Lee still keeps his diary from the one-month solo trip he took to San Francisco in 2018.
Then 19 and fresh out of pre-university, the Singaporean entrepreneur had just sold his trip-planning startup, Packdat, to an Indonesian-listed SIM card provider.
Meeting at least three new people each day on that trip, Lee jotted down everything he saw, heard, and learned. His goal? To answer one question: Why do amazing ideas seem to be born only in Silicon Valley?
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