My first office rent in Korea was more expensive than my current one in Singapore.
No investors. No connections in the industry. Just me and a product I believed in.
I sold facial recognition software door-to-door to Korean government agencies. Most of them said no. Some of them laughed.
5 years later, I'm sitting in Singapore running 4 companies across 2 countries, managing 7-figure deals, and pitching at GITEX Dubai.
Here's what changed:
I stopped trying to be the smartest person in the room and started building structures. → I created a holding company that separates risk across every entity.
I moved to Singapore because I wanted access to the entire Southeast Asian market from one base. → English-speaking ecosystem, proximity to every major Asian economy, and a government that actually supports entrepreneurs.
I started automating everything I touched more than twice. → That became an AI assistant that now runs my daily operations.
None of this happened because I had a grand plan. I just kept solving the next problem in front of me.
That expensive first office taught me something I still use today: constraints force clarity.
When you can't afford to waste money, you learn what actually matters.
What's one constraint that ended up shaping your career?
