“If we get this right, we can literally go into the history books,” a 32-year-old fresh-faced Anthony Tan told the Financial Times in 2014.
He was unabashedly ambitious. He had just launched what was GrabTaxi two years ago. He was on a self-declared mission to serve the daily needs of South-east Asians.
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