As for me, I am personally privileged to be Head of Engineering for Data Insights: Our Ads business, Personalization and Segmentation Platforms, User Data Platform, and all of Grab’s online databases and operational data stores… which sounds pretty impressive until you realize that the Ads engineering department consists of Scott. Heya, Scott. I kid, I kid; there are others but you get the idea; we’re still a startup, and everyone is doing so much with so little. It keeps us from getting complacent. I’ve got teams in Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Singapore and Seattle, and the company has placed so much faith in us that we move heaven and earth to get things done. It’s not easy. Grab definitely isn’t for everyone in the US. In Seattle we’re 16 timezones removed from Singapore, so their mornings are our evenings and we have to sacrifice a lot in order to be effective. Many of us basically live in Singapore time, and we’re often in conference calls until midnight to 2am. But it’s worth it. Being at Grab is a privilege. After meeting Siti I know that more than ever before. What is happening here is a phenomenal, generational, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I am forever grateful and humbled to be a part of this incredible team, helping change the lives of 650 million wonderful people. It’s on us to make it happen.

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