The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (father of video games), Tony Buzan (Mindmap Guru), Isaac Tigrett (Hard Rock Cafe founder), Robert Kiyosaki (Financial Guru), Nick Vujicic (motivational speaker) and more. Tap into this valuable resource of shared experiences for the SME industry, which also touches on news, issues and trends affecting the business community and beyond.
Open For Business
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The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (father of video games), Tony Buzan (Mindmap Guru), Isaac Tigrett (Hard Rock Cafe founder), Robert Kiyosaki (Financial Guru), Nick Vujicic (motivational speaker) and more. Tap into this valuable resource of shared experiences for the SME industry, which also touches on news, issues and trends affecting the business community and beyond.
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July 19, 2026
Fixing Phones Is Dead? Secondlifeasia’s Software Pivot
<p>For years, Secondlifeasia was recognized as a hardware-heavy device repair business. But as the company sets out to raise RM5 million at a near-RM38 million valuation, it is undergoing a high-stakes operational shift.</p><p></p><p>Squeezed by a structural hardware margin trap, driven by Apple’s iron grip on parts pricing and surging component costs, the company is facing the decline of repair culture, as consumers choose instant trade-ins over physical part replacements.</p><p>The answer to this? Software.</p><p></p><p>Secondlifeasia claims it can transform into a scalable ecosystem for financed, pre-loved devices.</p><p>Co-Founder and CEO Jerome Teh joins Open for Business to defend their new trajectory. We dive into the assumptions underpinning their financial projections and dissect their signature "switch-off deterrent", a proprietary, remote device-locking technology designed to mitigate an <strong>$11 billion global fraud problem</strong> and turn high-risk pre-loved electronics into safe, high-yield financial assets for risk-averse financiers. </p><p></p><p>Finally, we question the true execution risk of their pivot and regional playbook as they attempt to scale across the highly fragmented consumer markets of Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
July 13, 2026
Infinium Robotics: F&B Failure to RM96M Exit
<p>Following a RM96 million acquisition by German-listed DDB, Jon Woon, Founder and CEO of Infinium Robotics, unpacks what’s next for the indoor autonomous drone space.</p><p></p><p>We discuss how the company successfully pivoted from an economically unviable restaurant food-delivery experiment into a logistics play, the development of patent-pending indoor navigation software that flies entirely without GPS signals, and how a single autonomous drone can audit up to 20,000 pallet locations over a single weekend.</p><p></p><p>Jon also shares how Infinium actively de-risked its business from low-cost Chinese hardware competition by transforming into a drone-agnostic system integrator, leveraging a resilient 70% OPEX rental revenue model to seamlessly scale across Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.</p><p></p><p>Finally, we explore the next frontier of logistics through Physical AI and digital twin technology, explaining why a massive global automation gap, where 90% of warehouses still rely on manual stock-taking, presents a massive runway for their upcoming expansion into Europe and North America.<br></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
July 12, 2026
The Creator Collaboration Advantage
<p>Open your brand's Instagram and honestly ask if you would follow the account if you did not work there. Most corporate social media pages function like boring bulletin boards, treating creators merely as distribution channels with audiences attached. Recognising this flaw after a decade leading Gushcloud Malaysia, Wan Hou Yin left to launch empwr in January 2026 alongside a former colleague and one of Malaysia's most recognisable digital talents.</p><p></p><p>That talent is Mohamad Sofian Abdullah, better known as Sofyank. Famous for his VFX collaborations with Hollywood stars and winning Zach King's Ultimate VFX Challenge, Sofyank is not just a client on the agency roster — he is a co-founder. This distinction drives empwr's entire business thesis. By treating creators as genuine creative partners, the agency leverages their cultural instincts to produce content audiences actually want to watch. This approach rapidly built a bootstrapped, seven-figure business that reached profitability in just three months, highlighted by a massive Dutch Lady livestream with Khairul Aming that generated RM400,000 in sales.</p><p></p><p>Hou Yin and Sofian join us to discuss the fundamental difference between a traditional influencer campaign and a genuine creator collaboration. We examine the commercial realities of running their fast-growing agency, what it actually changes when you bring a top-tier digital creator into the boardroom, and whether the traditional advertising industry is finally ready to let go of outdated marketing strategies.</p><p></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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