Neoh-Age Lessons

Joel Neoh's journey and key learnings in the startup ecosystem

- Chong Jinn Xiung

Joel Neoh’s natural curiosity, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking were evident throughout his career, but he never expected to start his own company.

Hailing from a family of civil servants, persuading his parents to support his entrepreneurship pursuit was tough. “My parents would ask what I was doing and when I would stop this hobby,” he recalls. “There was a lot of insecurity in the early years as I graduated as a mechanical engineer. All my classmates went on to become engineers with good salaries.”