WHEN I graduated from university and returned home in 1985, the economy was in recession. Like many fresh graduates, I thought the world was mine to conquer.
With a few thousand ringgit borrowed from family, I invested in what was then the very first computer diskette manufacturing company in Malaysia, possibly South-East Asia too. The PC boom was taking off in the US then, and every PC needed a floppy disk for data storage.
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