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5 Regrets I Had In Planning Our Wedding Dinner

Posted on June 29, 2015 admin

I’ve been thinking about wedding dinners lately because Ming got married and another friend of mine is getting married soon. So there’s a lot of busy wedding dinner preparations going on during this time.

Planning wedding dinners can be one of the most stressful experiences for a couple about to get hitched for mainly two reasons:

1) Dealing with expectations you have for your own wedding dinner.

2) Dealing with expectations your parents and in-laws have for your wedding dinner.

You however deal with problem 1) really easily when you realize from the start that your wedding isn’t going to be perfect. There’s ought to be something that wouldn’t go the way you want during the wedding dinner itself.

So you then just have to focus on problem 2) and that’s a tough one. There really isn’t any guide in this because the chemistry between each of our parents and in-laws are unique. So are there expectations. We just have to figure out how to deal with it in our own ways.

I loved my own wedding. I thoroughly enjoyed it and so did my friends. There were however a few things that I did regret not doing. And I’ve listed them here so hopefully you guys won’t have to make the same mistakes I did.

1) Sound wasn’t loud enough

We all do it. Before our wedding dinner we go to our friends’ weddings with a mental notebook so we could take note on the good ideas they had and the things we think they could have done better. One thing i noticed about many of the weddings I attended was that the sound system was often too weak.

Often if you’re sitting near the back you can’t hear the speeches that are going on. To prepare for this we did sound tests on the day before the wedding and even then I felt it wasn’t loud enough. So I paid RM2,000 to insert more speakers so that it could be heard all round. I thought I had it covered but I was wrong.

A sound system can sound strong in an empty ballroom but it’s very very easy to underestimate how 500-800 people at your wedding dinner talking at the same time can really drown out whatever speakers you have.

In my case I underestimated it even though I thought I had prepared for it. The situation was made worse with my next regret.

2) Inviting too many people

The thing about wedding dinners is that it’s often not for you. It’s for your parents and in-laws. Our parents often feel the pressure to invite many of their friends and relatives. It doesn’t even matter if they’re relatives that you hardly see or have never even seen in your life. Because they’re your relatives and because it’s your wedding dinner, culture and tradition has it that you invite them.

Our wedding ended up with over 70 plus tables and the sheer number of people there took a toll on the beautiful atmosphere we imagined. It’s not possible for you and your parents to really know 700 people well. Lets face it. Of the 700 or so people, the people who really really want to be there because they want to see you get married are probably just a handful. The rest go for many other reasons: obligation, free food, opportunities to meet people, opportunities to socialize with other people there and all.

The problem with this is that I personally knew less than half of the people at my wedding. Half of the people there didn’t really care about me or that I was getting married. I know because when my best man or Shorty’s maid of honor was giving their speeches about our union, everybody behind was busy talking. Some tables were even calling yam sengs… during a speech!

The best weddings I’ve seen are the small ones. The ones with 10 tables.. maximum 30 tables. The shortage of seats in small weddings force you to filter out the people who don’t matter and include only the people who do matter. Those weddings have the best atmosphere of all.

Looking back I should have limited the number of tables our wedding was going to have at the very beginning.

3) Food was terrible

The other problem with having big weddings is that the food is more often than not going to be crap. I did what most people do before their wedding dinners. I had a food tasting of the hotel with a group of 10 before we decided on the menu and the food then was great.

It’s easy to cook good food for 10 people. It’s another to do it for 700. The food at my wedding was terrible. So bad I only ate half a dinner and ended up going for supper after.

I do notice though that Chinese restaurants tend to cope better with food quality than hotel ballrooms do.

4) Not taking a family photo

My biggest regret of the night was not setting down a time to take a wedding photo. Throughout the whole dinner I was busy saying hi to all the people at the wedding. Half of them whom I didn’t know. Shorty was busy changing outfits as the bride normally does and my parents were busy entertaining their friends.

By the end of the wedding I realized one thing. That I never took a family photo. We got so overwhelmed with the whole dinner that we just forgot the whole thing. Sure I think our wedding photographer should have reminded us at one point in the night but I think what we should have done at the very beginning was to set a time to take a photo beforehand.

5) Being Strict on Dress Code

Most wedding dinners now have a dress code. You’re expected to wear a suit or at least a blazer. True that some people don’t have the luxury of wearing a blazer or a suit but at my wedding I had people wearing all sorts of things.

One of my guests wore jeans, sneakers and a hoodie. When you look at your wedding photographs at the end of it, you see photos of really well dressed people and then suddenly you see someone there who dresses like he’s going to the mall.

I know that at some wedding dinners, the bride and groom predict who will dress down instead of dress up and plot the seating arrangements accordingly so minimize the impact on the wedding photos. Thats something we didn’t do though.

In spite of these regrets though, I loved our wedding. The one thing about weddings is that no matter what happens or how you do it, it’s going to be the best wedding you’ve ever attended. Because it’s your wedding. Besides the people who matter don’t care about what goes right or wrong in the wedding, they only care about being there and seeing you get married. So relax. Whatever happens, your wedding will be the best ever. The only thing that can go really wrong is that if you don’t attend your own wedding and that’s not going to happen right?

Writing about this brought back memories of my own wedding so I dug up our wedding videos.

Here’s our ROM video.

And this is the full length video, including our wedding dinner.

Credit to my wife who really did most of the work in planning our beautiful wedding.

Update!

Posted on June 26, 2015 admin

Hi Guys

I’m sorry I haven’t had a chance t update these few days. Between juggling a regional meeting in Singapore and making the final preparations before our IPO, it’s been crazy for me.

After work a few days ago I sat down to think about what I could blog about but my mind was mentally too tired to write or express anything I had on my mind.

In the mean time I’ve been regularly updating my Dayre and Snapchat. You can find me on @timothytiah for both.

Speaking of Snapchat here’s my latest compilation of Fighter videos when he came down to Singapore to see me.

Even though I have to travel quite a bit these days I try to maximize time with Fighter by having Shorty bring him down with me if they’re free. Fighter loves traveling too. Always loves seeing new things. The only thing is that his routine gets messed up and in the new environment he seems to test his boundaries and throw some tantrums around. You can read about that in my latest Dayre update.

I’ll update again when I get the chance to. In the mean time take care everyone and have a wonderful weekend ahead!

Why we should stop saying “I’ll try my best”.

Posted on June 23, 2015 admin

For much of my life my parents brought me up with the mantra that it doesn’t matter if I fail, as long as I tried my best. That’s how I always lived my life.

What I’ve learned in the past year is a totally different approach. I learned that saying we’ll try our best is not just helpful but can be a prelude to failure. Here’s why:

1) The Mind is a powerful thing

When we tell someone that I will “try my best”, we are managing expectations that we might fail but we would have our best. Worse than the expectations we set for people is what we set in our own mind. That before we try something we are already subconsciously accepting that we might fail.

In the past year I’ve tried a different approach. Instead of saying “I will do my best”, I said “I’ll do it”. A much shorter phrase a lot more powerful. I said “I’ll do it” for things like completing a 160KM race to difficult goals to achieve as a company where some things may fall out of my control.

The truth is that sometimes things did fall out of my control but I noticed that because I already conditioned my mind that failure is not an option, I acted on it immediately and got us past the finish line.

I’m sure if I keep to this approach long enough there will come a time where I might not be able to get something done even though I said I will. That hasn’t happened yet so far in the past year (fortunately) though and I find that this thinking has made me fight harder for things that I said I will do. Not accepting no for an answer and not giving up.

2) What if your best isn’t good enough?

If you tried your best and you still fail what does that mean? Does it mean your best is not good enough? Then does it mean you’re not good enough? That’s a hard reality to admit that we’re not good enough because nobody wants to ever admit that. We want to believe we are capable of doing anything we want.

There is one worse thing you can do than admit that you’re not good enough though. That’s blaming someone else or blaming the people around you for not helping you get to where you need to go. People who do that tend to not see the problems in themselves and if we can’t see our own problems we can’t fix it. Then we will always fail.

As a leader in our company I can’t blame my staff if the company fails to achieve something. I can only blame myself for having them there in the first place. Or not acting on it if I knew they were going to fail.

I wanna end this thought-piece with a video from one of my favorite movies.

So lets stop trying our best. Lets just do it.

5 Things I grew up with

Posted on June 19, 2015 admin

I always say that I enjoy my adult life a lot more than my life as a kid growing up. When I look back though I always remember fond memories but the one thing that sticks out is how the really simplest things made me super happy as a kid. We were living in a time with no social media, with no iPads or smartphones. Where it would never occur to us that to touch a button on a screen would actually activate it.

Here are the things I remember growing up with:

1) My cutting edge computer had 16MB in Hard Disk Space.

My family had a 286 at home. One of the first computers to have its own hard disk and one of the fastest computers of its time. The hard disk had a capacity of 16MB and that was huge. We couldn’t fill it up in spite of all the games we installed on it.

Today even a pen drive has 16MB. Our phones have a minimum of 16GB (which is 1,024 times more) and our desktops can have terabytes. Still… the 286 made me happy. The Pentiums that came after made me happier of course but there’s nothing like the first computer with a hard disk.

2) I bought chocolates because of the toys. Not because of the chocolates.

Tora was sold for RM1 per piece.

I didn’t buy them because I loved the chocolate. In fact its chocolate was just mediocre at best. I bought it because while watching the 5PM cartoon slot or RTM, they played a TVC that showed the exciting possibilities of a Tora toy.

A cheaper alternative was Din Dang that cost RM0.50. Its chocolates were terrible. But its toys… that kept me going. I wonder if this strategy: toys over chocolate is still as effective as it was then.

3) We wrote letters

There was no such thing as e-mails. We wrote letters to people and at one point I even had two pen-pals. One from Johor and another from Selangor that we exchanged letters with. if you get close enough to a pen pal then you attach a photo of yourself, normally the best possible looking photos.

The problem with pen-pals though is that sometimes the other side stops replying or you forget to reply and it just ends. Nothing however replaces the feeling of opening up your mailbox and seeing a letter there for you from your pen pal. The excitement of ripping open the envelope and eyes darting word by word.

4) Landlines were the only way to talk to your friends

Phone numbers in Penang then had 6 digits. Somewhere towards the end of primary school it changed to 7 digits which is where it is now. I guess when they got to too many numbers they would have changed it to 8 digits just like in KL but up till today that doesn’t have seem to happen. Maybe because most people are going into mobile lines now rather than phone lines.

The downside of a landline? When you call your girlfriend her whole house knows you’re calling. In fact you risk having your girlfriend’s dad picking up . If you spend too much time talking on the phone you’ll get a lecture from your dad at the end of the month when he gets the bill.

5) Flag erasers were the worst but still popular

Everyone had a flag eraser. In fact many people have tons of them but the funny part is that it’s one of the worst erasers out there. You keep it in your pencil box and you only use it when you’ve lost your Steadler one and when you do it frustrates you because it turns your paper green.

At least they smelled good.

What else do you remember growing up with?

Ming and Patty’s wedding weekend in Bangkok

Posted on June 16, 2015 admin

So I was in Bangkok over the weekend for Ming’s wedding weekend. My business partner Ming got married to a beautiful Thai girl named Patty who’s a fashion designer and one of the two girls behind the label Innit.

It was a really small and intimate wedding. Just 12 tables. I really like small weddings like that because it feels really intimate so everyone is really friendly to each other.

Let me show you some of the pictures we took and tell you the story behind them.

Here’s me with some of us from Netccentric who made it.

Our company has close to 200 staff so with 12 tables Ming couldn’t invite everyone so he invited people he worked directly with and are really close to.

Here’s a picture of Ming and I in the morning.

I was one of the groomsmen so Ming told us to all come in a black suit. Then Patty made us a special Innit bow tie.

The wedding was held at this really posh boutique hotel called The Siam. It was done in a very classical colonial period type of feel. This is the entrance to our room.

Here’s the bathroom.

The bed area is pretty normal but one of the favorite parts is the tub.

It’s definitely one of the posher hotels I’ve ever stayed in.
After the wedding ceremony on Sunday morning we went out for a while for a massage. I happened to stand next to Xiaxue and my wife and noticed this.

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Haha. Speaking of Xiaxue she convinced me to get on Snapchat lately. So if you’re not already doing so you can follow me on Snapchat @timothytiah.

This is Ming giving his wedding speech at the wedding dinner.

Ming always said the most important thing about wedding speeches is giving thanks to the parents of the bride and the groom. Advice I took for my very own wedding.

All dressed up for the dinner with Shorty, Pierre, Lay See, Fred and Velda.

For the wedding dinner Ming brought in two performances. One is a singer from the UK named Cole Paige. Ming met him many years ago when we were at Old Trafford and he was the singer and entertainer for that event. Cole is more than a good singer. He’s great at interacting with the crowd so Ming told him then that he would bring him over for his wedding one day. True enough he did.

The other performer they brought on was a Thai artist called New and Jiew. We’ve never heard of them before but they’re huge in Thailand. All the Thai guests at the wedding went crazy and mobbed them to take pictures of them later.

Shorty and I managed to catch them at the after party and took a picture with them. They’re so humble and simple. I often see celebrities in Malaysia with an entourage or their managers always with them but New & Jiew were alone on their own.

Each guest at the party got an autographed copy of their album.

All and all Ming and Patty’s wedding was one of the most well planned and personalized weddings I’ve ever been to. I mean so many things could go wrong at the wedding dinner. At mine for example the sound wasn’t loud enough so people weren’t paying attention to the speeches. But at Ming and Patty’s wedding everything was prepared. I could even hear New & Jiew in the afternoon doing a full rehearsal of their performance before the wedding dinner itself.

It was an awesome wedding and one that I was glad to be a part of. Congratulations Ming and Patty!

Things Shorty & Fatty Say #330 & #331: Reverse

Posted on June 12, 2015 admin

#330

Shorty runs upstairs panting

Shorty: FATS!! I need your help!

Me: What?

Shorty: I’m trying to reverse our van out so I can take Penny’s stroller out of the back but the car doesn’t move!

Me: How can it don’t move?

Shorty: I just have to press the brake and then press the start button to start the engine right?

Me: Yes.

Shorty: Then I release the hand brake which is the leg lever at the bottom right?

Me: Yes.

Shorty: But after I do that the car still doesn’t move!!!!

Me: Hmm… did you shift the gear into Reverse?

Shorty: …….

3 long seconds past…

Shorty: Oh… hehehe… ya thanks thanks. Ok ok let me go back and do that now.

Me: Seriously… when I tell this story, people are gonna think I make this shit up.

#331

Packing for a trip

Shorty: FATS WHY IS OUR SAMSONITE BAG SO BATTERED! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT? You were the last one to use it!

Me: Huh no I wasn’t.

Shorty: Yes you brought it to Sydney with you.

Me: No I didn’t. I used my small bag for Sydney.

Shorty: Then how do you explain all your socks in this bag?

Me: *walks closer and looks at contents of bag* Really?

Me: *picks up camera charger that belongs to Shorty* So this Casio camera charger here…. this would really work well with my Casio camera… if I had one huh?

Shorty: Oh… hehehe… hehee.. *grabs camera charger from me*

I tried doing what my wife does for my kids and here’s how it went

Posted on June 8, 2015 admin

I used to tell my wife that I envy her job. Before I leave for work every morning I think about how I would rather be the one in our marriage who stays home and takes care of the kids. The one that gets to spend more time with them. Shorty though tells me it’s a lot harder than it looks and so in the past months I tried off and on to do the things that she does as a mother.

Here’s what I did and how it went:

1) Being the one to feed my 20 month old toddler at restaurants.

At most meals out, here’s how it works. Fighter sits in a baby chair next to Shorty and Shorty feeds him while eating her own food. I would then be busy talking to our guests and towards the end once Fighter’s done I would carry him away from Shorty so she could finish her meal. Sounds easy right?

Expectation:

What I decided to try one day was to be the one to feed Fighter while eating a meal. My thought process was really simple. Take a spoonful of whatever it was I was eating and while I was chewing my own food, feed Fighter his. Multi-tasking at its best. Whoever said men can’t multi-task.

Reality:

Fighter does a lot more than eat on his baby chair. He grabs the nearby fork and waves it into the air before almost jabbing it into his own neck. When I take the fork away from him he screams out of anger. Then I tell him off and he cries and a crying baby doesn’t want to eat no more.

If he’s not playing with sharp metal objects he’s playing with his food. The area beneath his baby chair becomes a mixed buffet of whatever he was eating. He grabs his food, throws it on the dirty dinner table and then picks up again and then tries to put it in his mouth. Fortunately I do a Matrix-worthy leap and stop it. He cries again.

I then resort to the worst case scenario. Bringing out the iPad and hypnotize him with Pink Fong while I feed him comfortably. In the brief moment of peace I reflect at what a lazy parent I am… resorting to the iPad once again.

2) Waking up in the middle of the night to my crying 3 month old baby girl and tried to comfort her back to sleep

Expectation:

3 month old Penny wakes up and cries. Probably hungry. I just feed her some milk and/or change her diaper then put her back to sleep.

Reality:

I’VE DONE EVERYTHING AND SHE’S STILL CRYING! WHAT’S GOING ON?!?!?

I rock her and go “shhh”. It doesn’t work. So I shush harder until my “shh” becomes “SHHH!!!!” sounding almost like a vulgar slur. I then take her for a walk around the room. Twenty minutes in and I feel like i’ve done a marathon and Penny’s still screaming.

Shorty wakes up and decides to take the crying Penny of me.

My heart says “TAKE HER TAKE HER!!!!”.

Shorty holds her for 5 seconds and all I hear thereafter is silence. I go back to sleep. Mission failed.

3) Spending an afternoon babysitting both my kids

Expectation:

Okay I’ll just put Fighter in his playpen. Penny in her moses basket and I’ll kick back and watch some TV with a beer in hand. A lazy Sunday afternoon. Nothing much to it.

Reality:

Fighter stop touching the shoes on the shoe rack!! NO NO NO DON’T PUT YOUR HANDS IN YOUR MOUTH NOW AFTER YOU’VE TOUCHED THE SHOES!!!

NO KEEP AWAY FROM THE STAIRS…. DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH THOSE SCISSORS! Shit… Penny is crying from all the shouting. I gotta go carry her… FIGHTER NO! DON’T EAT THAT!!! Okay okay.. stop crying Fighter… Daddy didn’t mean to scold you… I was just…. Penny stop crying too ok? I wasn’t talking to you.

*phone rings*

WHO IS CALLING ME AT THIS MOST INCONVENIENT TIME!!!

4) Changing my toddler’s diaper at malls

Expectation:

Ah there’s a baby changing room. That makes things super easy. Just lay Fighter down, wash his butt, diaper cream, replace the diaper and all good to go. Imma try for a Guinness World Record for fastest diaper change ever.

Reality:

Why are you crying?! Why are you crying Fighter? Don’t you want Daddy to change your diaper? Would you rather have a dirty diaper all the way home? Stop crying and stop struggling ok? No stop kicking me!

NO… DON’T TOUCH YOUR OWN POO… NO!!!

NO DO NOT PUT YOUR POO COVERED FINGERS IN YOUR MOUTH NOW… IT’S GONNA TASTE LIKE SHIT!!! PUT THE FINGERS DOWN FIGHTER!!!

NO DON’T RUB IT ON MY WHITE SHIRT EITHER!!!

Look… this diaper is going to get changed whether you like it or not. STOP STRUGGLING!!!

OK DONE DONE DONE!!!

Okay now lets go wash your hands. Wait what’s that brown thing on your pants…. OH COME ON FIGHTER! I DON’T HAVE ANYMORE PANTS FOR YOU!! It’s the Donald Duck for you now!

5) Burping a newborn baby

Expectation:

Burp Penny and then put her to sleep. Done deal.

Reality:

Ahh this has gotta be the easiest of all. Just 10 seconds and I got myself a burp. This is too easy really. Too easy.

OH CRAP CRAP SHE PUKED. Ahh it’s all over me!! TISSUE TISSUE!!! Why you crying miss?! Did I puke on you or did you puke on me?!

Ok you wait here for a while. Let me go change my shirt now.

Okay all changed now. Why you making so much noise? Do you still have gas in your tummy? Ok let me try burp you again. HA HA… 5 seconds burp… a new record! Wait what’s that….

ARRGGHH NOT AGAIN !!! I JUST CHANGED MY SHIRT!!!

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At the end of all this. I think I’ll keep my day job as a working dad.

How I felt about turning 31 vs turning 21

Posted on June 6, 2015 admin

Today is my 31st Birthday. This one really crept up on me. It’s like I always felt I was in my twenties and I just realized today that I’m well in my 30s. I thought back to about 10 years ago to how I felt when I first turned 21 and compared it to how I feel today at age 31.

Here’s how I felt at age 21.

1) I felt “grown-up”

I was still a student so I wasn’t in any way financially independent yet however 21 is that age where you’re legal for anything in any country. It’s legal for you to go clubbing, legal for you to drink in the states, and legal for you to go to jail if you commit a crime. I felt grown up that I could now walk into any casino confidently and flash my ID.

2) I thought about my future

At age 21 I knew I was at the tail end of my university education so I did kinda know what I wanted to do. At that point I believe I still wanted to be an investment banker. I imagined working life to be dull and stressful and nothing like student life because a lot of people told me student life was always the best.

Of course I didn’t totally enjoy my student life so I had this impression that working life was gonna be really bad if it’s really worse than student life. Turns out I actually ended up liking working life more than my student life.

I was excited about the things I was going to achieve in the next 10 years. For some reason I didn’t think much about the starting a family yet or getting married as part of my achievements but really just thought about work or career achievements.

3) I wanted to have a huge birthday celebration

Alcohol, music, dancing and lots and lots and lots of friends. That was how I wanted to celebrate my 21st year. 21 is a big number after all. It’s the number that most parents give their kids a “key” as if to say you’re an adult now and can make your own decisions. Because I had lots of friends my birthday party was going to be huge. I was gonna invite everyone, and the most obvious place to have one was at a club. The club seemed to meet all my criteria.

Now I compared that to how I feel about turning 31 now.

1) I feel old

Not old old but I feel a lot more vulnerable than I did before. I’m quickly approaching the age where I have to worry about health and perhaps that’s why I made a resolution last year to cycle or exercise more and play less golf.

2) I thought about my kids’ future

By this point I kinda know where my future was heading so instead I find myself thinking a lot about my kids’ future. Which school with Fighter go to, how will his friends in school treat him, will he get bullied?

Is Penny going to be a happy kid or a grumpy kid? Will she go to a female liberal arts college like her mother?

I think of all these things and less about my future. The realization hit me that I don’t live for myself so much anymore. I live for my family.

3) I didn’t want a huge birthday celebration

The thing age and having a family does to you is that it takes away a lot of time that you have to mingle. So I hang out with a lot less friends now and during my birthday celebrations I opt for something simple. Maybe just a dinner and an early starting one too so that Fighter and Penny can be awake for it.

My birthday today so far is rather uneventful. I’m spending it like how I spend any other Saturday. Coffee in the morning, cycling in the afternoon and spending the rest of my time playing with my kids. I thought hard to see if there was anything else I would rather do but the answer always came back as a no.

Perhaps its true that celebrating birthdays get less important to you as you get older. At least until you hit a really old age.

So happy birthday to me. My wish is that I would be able to spend many many birthdays more with close friends and my family.

The one thing Startup founders should STOP doing

Posted on June 3, 2015 admin

On the plane back from Singapore the other day I was reading a book called “Start Something That Matters” by Blake Mycoskie. Blake is the guy behind Tom’s, the really comfortable shoes that I’ve grown to like.

The part of the book I was reading was tips about how he grew his company from a startup to what it is today. One of his tips for startup founders: To stop calling ourselves CEO on our name cards.

At first I thought I had read it wrong. I darted my eyes up a paragraph and re-read what he wrote and my eyes didn’t fail me. He said what he did. When I read on to hear why it hit me how much truth there was in what he said.

Why should startup entrepreneurs stop calling ourselves CEO on our name cards?

Because very often, unless you’re a huge company that everyone has heard of, calling yourself a CEO when you introduce your company as a startup tends to set off the impression that you’re a really small company. That the company is just you and some interns (and maybe an assistant).

Being a small company is nothing to be ashamed about, heck that’s what being a startup is all about anyway. It shouldn’t matter to you, but it may matter to other people that you might want to work with. Be it potential employees, potential investors or even potential business partners. Perception is just as important (or some would say more important) than reality. People want to work with winners and you owe it to your startup to do it justice by presenting yourself as a winner as often as you can.

I’ve never personally had CEO or any of these titles on my name card as a startup 7-8 years ago. All my partner Ming and I had was “Co-Founder and Executive Director”.

If I do a startup again though I probably just wouldn’t have a title on my name card. Just my name would do.

When people then ask me what I do? I’d say “My job is to <insert startup’s vision here>”.

That I believe would be a lot more powerful a statement than saying you’re CEO.

If however you’ve grown to a moderate sized company or at the extreme end you’re a very well known company like Uber, then by all means put on the CEO title in bold and emboss is in gold if you like. The irony though is when you get to that stage, you don’t even need to have a title on your name card and people would know who you are.

Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space