Technology
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The Game Boy won because it was worse. Deliberately worse. Built on technology from the 1970s while every competitor chased cutting-edge.Plate 092ElsewhereGunpei Yokoi / Nintendo
He picked coins from drains as a kid. At 33, he sold his company for $30 million.Plate 075SingaporeVodien / Alvin Poh
A kampung kid from Geylang killed the floppy disk. The world just forgot to say thank you.Plate 071SingaporeTrek 2000 / Henn Tan
I use Grab almost every day. Never once thought about the text message that started it.Plate 067Singapore & MalaysiaTan Hooi Ling
50 years of agricultural scientists couldn't commercialize vertical farming. An aluminium factory owner did it in 4.Plate 061SingaporeSky Greens
The answer to a complex surgical problem wasn't a bigger machine. It was a smaller one.Plate 052SingaporeNousQ / CLiKX
Most companies hire to compensate for a product that isn't good enoughPlate 032SingaporeHyperliquid / Jeff Yan
He replaced luxury tea with Lipton and two-ply toilet paper with single-ply. That's how you save a $50 billion company.Plate 019SingaporeForrest Li / Sea
The global standard wasn't set in Silicon Valley. It was set in a Chinatown repair shop.Plate 013SingaporeCreative Technology / Sound Blaster
He quit a $500 million Wall Street hedge fund to start a martial arts company. Everyone said it was the dumbest idea they'd ever heard.Plate 010ElsewhereChatri Sityodtong / ONE Championship