Singapore chases tech ‘Jedi Masters’ for Silicon Valley ambitions


  • TECH
  • Friday, 24 May 2019

A statue of Yoda is pictured in Lucasfilm's Sandcrawler Building offices in Singapore May 22, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su

SINGAPORE: San Francisco-based investor Paul Bragiel said he needed to be asked three or four times before he accepted an invitation from Singapore to come check out its tech scene.

He made the 8,000-mile trip, but said that back then – in 2010 – the city-state's prospects to become a leading Asia tech hub were "bleak, to say the least".

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