"Whether you're a first-time, second-time, or endless-time founder, you have to remember you're always learning. If you're not always learning, don't do a startup job because there's always something pretty strange that will come your way and you'll question what you should do. You’ll always be a problem solver." - Bernard Leong
"I want to build a product first, build the first deck, and the correct customer base. I don't need to go all out yet. What I need to figure out is if the strategy works. Once the strategy works, everybody will come to you. You don't need to go to everyone. Everybody who wants you to fail will want you to fail. Everybody who wants you to succeed will want you to succeed. So you just have to make sure you have the right capability. The best thing in the startup world is that everybody is in an equal and zero state." - Bernard Leong
"I felt that if are not fully in the game, you shouldn't be holding any equity, which is what exactly I did. There's something called the first love problem. You always never forget your first love, and I knew that a lot of people fail for the first time in entrepreneurship. So, I was a little bit detached. Don't think about the first love. Think about what would it be like when you're with your soulmate. That means that will give you a lot more opportunity to get to that state that you want. It may not be the first company, even the second company. It could be the next company. And there's also limited time. That’s why I thought it was probably the time to build again." - Bernard Leong
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on the astrophysics PHD to serial founder journey, disrupting extractive enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and startup versus family career decisions.
Keywords: Bernard Leong, Astrophysics PHD to Serial Founder, Disrupting Extractive Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Systems, Startup vs Family Career Decisions, Singapore, VC, Founder Story
