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rest well tony lim, 47. the man who got malaysians stacking tiny bowls of noodles 🍜 1 | he wanted to be an automotive engineer. proton rejected him after 3 rounds. so at 23 he opened speed D garage in sunway with RM150k from his mum, tuning japanese cars and racing them 🏁 2 | the workshop was gone in 2 years. his words: he ran it like an engineer, not a businessman. and customers, some of them friends, didn’t pay for repairs 🫠 3 | then nearly a decade at his family’s trucking firm, where he learned B2B credit cycles were a trap. so he built businesses where the customer pays before they eat 4 | first boat noodle opened at empire damansara in 2014. halal thai boat noodles, RM1.90 a bowl back then, 8,000 bowls in a day 🤯 (I remember going with frens and stacking them as high as we could!) 5 | within 2 years japan’s toridoll bought 40%. in 2018 he co-founded bananabro, RM70M revenue in 2023 today that’s ~50 boat noodle outlets and 40+ bananabro branches built on tiny bowls and big banana leaves🍜 his team says he pushed them to get better by 1% every day. a philosophy i used to run with my own team. thank you tony