Chan Ke Siak Case Study

1. One of the successful technopreneurs in Malaysia – Chan Kee Siak.
A man who were born in a hawker family, a man who fought a few years selling and repairing PC, a man who was so young and discovered the potential in web-hosting and that man was given the named Chan Kee Siak. At the age of 19, Mr. Chan Kee Siak challenge himself to pursue his dream to open a company major in web-hosting. When others see web-hosting as a tiny business and not widely recognize yet, Mr. Chan see this as an opportunity and grasp this chance to earn his first pile of gold.
At first, he was just working as part-time job to earn pocket money. However as time flies, he gain more interest towards web-hosting. Chan handle his small business and his studies in parallel mode. Thing goes hard when he could not manage his assignment equally with his business. Almost every day he woke up at 3.30am to reply messages. Although Chan attend lecture, he was virtually half-asleep in class. Finally, Chan decided

Chan know that he is able to do many things at once, but he also knows that he need partner to succeed. He then hired the first employee, Mr. Andy Saw as his chief operating officer who is Chan’s schoolmate and three others from the JobStreet website (Kong, 2012). As stated in About Exabytes (2014), Exabytes has turned from a one-man company to a well-known IT establishment which manages over 1000 servers for 65000+ clients in 121+ countries in just a year.
Lastly, Chan is a positive thinker. His parents disagreed of his decision to drop out from college at first. However, Chan did not feel discouraged. He continued on what he started and finally his parents witnessed the achievement of Chan. According to Kong (2012), Chan said that his parents have faith on him when they finally understood the business’ potential. This showed that Chan does not dwell on setback even when he can’t get the support from his beloved family