At 10 years old, a lot of Singaporean children would keep themselves occupied with school revision or playing with their friends at the playground.
Esmond Liu, however, was busy selling marbles to his friends in school.
Entrepreneur since he was 10
As a Primary 4 kid, he would make trips to a neighbourhood aquarium store to purchase packets of marbles to sell them in school.
He would buy a pack of small marbles for around S$4 and a pack of bigger ones for around S$5.
Liu would then sell each marble for between S$0.20 and S$0.50, depending on the size and design.
In a week, he would make a profit of up to S$20.
This, it seems, was just the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey.
Following his well-received marble business in primary school, Liu worked part-time in secondary school selling phone accessories.
At 17, he started a short-lived publication business which he had to close the following year when he had to serve his national service.
He entered the IT service and repair industry when he was 22 and bought his million-dollar property six years later.
Now in his 30s, Liu has become the boss of his own holding company, which he founded in Dec. 2019.
Surprisingly, all it took was a faulty laptop to get him to where he is today.
More at https://mothership.sg/2020/09/esmond-service-centre/
