Are you looking to grow your business to a six, seven or even figures without killing yourself? If the answer is yes, you’re going to love today’s interview with Alvin Poh, a tech entrepreneur based in Singapore. At the age of 33 years old, he sold his Internet business Voiden for $30 million. This was the business that he scaled up from $0 all the way to Singapore's #1 hosting provider with 35,000 clients and a team of 150 before the 8-figure exit. Alvin then spent the next few years traveling the world, exploring new hobbies like snowboarding, kite surfing and many more.In 2020, he returned to Singapore and developed the 5E Scale Engine, which was the framework he used to scale up his business. Using that, he coaches entrepreneurs, just like himself, on how to Super Scale their businesses so that they can achieve breakthrough profits and find time freedom. If that’s what you want as well, keep listening to this interview!If you're an entrepreneur currently in the process of growing your business, listen in at 24:24 where Alvin shares a few mistakes entrepreneurs are currently making, including a strategy for each one.And listen in to Alvin's answers to the following questions:Alvin, from a kid with only pocket money for bus rides and lunch in school, how did you end up becoming the CEO of an internet company? - 1:09How did the $30m make your life better, and also worse? - 7:37If material goods aren’t your source of happiness, then what is? - 11:37Was your exit strategy very clear cut at the beginning? - 12:58How can we make a company sellable? - 18:43Is there a distinction between scaling and growing? - 20:06Why should businesses consider scaling? - 22:49What are some of the mistakes entrepreneurs making and how we can avoid them? - 24:24Is there a distinction between a 6, 7 and 8 figure business? - 28:02Tell us about your book, Super Scaling and your 5E scaling framework - 29:47How can we detach from the business to allow us to scale? - 30:57How can we get a copy of your book? - 34:50What’s next for you Alvin? - 35:55If you want to keep in touch with Alvin, you can reach him on Instagram @alvinpohofficial. You can also pick up a copy of Alvin's book Super Scaling on his website at: http://superscaling.com/book.Read these books to become highly sought after in your own industry -> www.pickericsbrain.comThank you for listening to this episode of #HighlySoughtAfter!If you enjoyed this episode, please help me hit the ‘subscribe’ button if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts or hit the ‘follow’ button if you are listening on Spotify.I would also love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode! Here’s how: take a screenshot of you listening to #HighlySoughtAfter and tag me on Instagram. My handle is @ericgoesglobal. This way, I can personally thank you!
Great podcast that everyone with fear of failure/imposter syndrome/self doubt should listen to! Love the energy of both the interviewer and interviewee as well! :)
My second time listening to Eric's podcast. No, I do not know him or met him in person but I chance upon his IG followed his IG post and learn a lot from him. This episode of how to stop playing small...caught my attention and at first, I was contemplating whether to listen to it. I am thankful that Eric posted this on his IG and I took the courage to click into it to listen. Then, I was wow-ed by it and also made me question what my fears are. I never knew that kind of thoughts or feelings I had since young until today was me playing small and trying to fit in to make sure everybody around me is happy. Then, my cup was empty till April until I quit my job to rest and started something which I never thought of trying before. I teared when I heard the last part of the poem. Appreciate that this podcast is shared and I get to realised I have a choice instead of letting those bad guest take control of me and letting my old self tell me that hey, your parents / friends are not going to lik
Completed the whole series while driving and listening in through Spotify. lots of authentic sharing by various influences and artist, seeing them rising from start to where they are now is an inspiration. Massive value inside each episodes and the treasure is there for you to dig;recommend you listen in and subscribe! looking forward to upcoming episodes! kudos to Eric and team!
This episode was very genuine and very authentic.Jasper lai realized that he prefers to entertain and make people happy rather than sticking to the normal or default way that people do to stand out.I have so many take aways in this episode. one of them was when he said that "you need to be genuine to your dreams, genuine to your goals, and genuine to yourself". "Be not just to be somebody well loved but be a somebody well respected as well. Don't seek for likes, but seek for respect because it will last longer in the run". Super cool!😊👍 And I loved the brand," to become the light of the world",as the host stated. it reminds me that there is HOPE☝️🥰. 👍👍 Thank you very much for creating this topic. Looking forward for more uplifting episodes. God bless!👍😊
This episode was very genuine and very authentic.Jasper lai realized that he prefers to entertain and make people happy rather than sticking to the normal or default way that people do to stand out.I have so many take aways in this episode. One of them was,when he said that "you need to be genuine to your dreams, genuine to your goals, and genuine to yourself". "Be not just to be somebody well loved but be a somebody well respected as well. Don't seek for likes, but seek for respect because it will last longer in the run". Super cool!😊👍 And I loved the brand," to become the light of the world",as the host stated. it reminds me that there is HOPE☝️🥰. 👍👍 Thank you very much for creating this topic. Looking forward for more uplifting episodes. God bless!👍😊
I really love this podcast, hella good and extremely relatable if you are in South East Asia