Anthony TanCEO, Co-Founder & Chairman, Grab Holdings Limited (GRAB)
4 recorded appearances
Named Businessman of the Year at the 41st Singapore Business Awards, Tan says he wakes up and goes to sleep thinking about AI, and describes his goal of turning Grab into a "cyborganisation" in which AI is fused into how every team works.
With Grab marketing head Cheryl Goh, Tan walks through the early operational grind behind GrabPay and GrabFood, arguing that each expansion came from solving a concrete local problem rather than from copying a playbook, and that culture and trust were the binding constraint.
Tan retraces the capital story from Series A to the Nasdaq listing: how the team managed the cap table under pressure, why he prioritised investors who shared the long-horizon view, and the financial discipline he credits for surviving the cash-burn years.
Tan explains how Grab out-manoeuvred Uber in Southeast Asia and stacked food delivery and fintech on top of ride-hailing, and describes the internal push to study and deploy AI while continuing to invest in EVs and autonomous driving.