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4. Royston Tay: Founder, Zopim

Ezra Ferraz1  and Gracy Fernandez1
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Makati City, Philippines
 

Royston Tay co-founded Zopim in Singapore in 2007 with Wenxiang Wu, Yang Bin Kwok, Qing Ru Lim, and Julian Low, who all met while studying abroad at Stanford University through the National University of Singapore Overseas College program.

Having caught the entrepreneurial bug, they worked on several ideas before settling on their most promising one, Zopim, a Live Chat product for the many small businesses just coming online. After graduating, they lived a Spartan lifestyle for more than two years, subsisting on US $410 per month as ...

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