The accidental entrepreneur


Datuk Foong Wei Kuong says opportunities for growth abound for companies like JF Technology that are involved in manufacturing semiconductors. — RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star

DATUK Foong Wei Kuong founded JF Technology Bhd from his kitchen at home in 1999 without an office, employees or customers. It had been a one-man show until he hired his first employee a year or two after setting up an office in 2003.

“I was the salesperson, technical person, product designer assembler and quality controller. Everything was insufficient — knowledge, customers and personnel.

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