Me & My Money: Focus your investments for optimal wealth growth, says technopreneur

Mr David Li’s taste for business and his high-tech skills eventually led him to Singapore in 2021, where he founded GreaterHeat. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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SINGAPORE – The entrepreneurial spirit took hold of tech executive David Li early in life and led him to start his first business when he was just 22 years old – and with only US$3,000 in his pocket.

That ambitious foray involved setting up an online food-ordering platform like Grabfood in his small home town in China’s Henan province, but it was far from smooth sailing despite a promising start.

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