Go-Jek CEO sees success from trusting the numbers, hyper-experimenting and luck


By Zen Soo

Makarim said he feels intimidated 'all the time' as a young chief executive, but shrugs this off as an 'ongoing process' that every millennial has to deal with.

Nadiem Makarim, the 34-year-old founder and chief executive of Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek, said that as a millennial he is “comfortable not having all the answers” amid his multibillion-dollar start-up’s expansion drive across South-East Asia.

“Thinking that you do know all the answers has very dire consequences,” Makarim said in an interview at the New Economy Forum in Singapore.

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