The Rise of Grab: How I built a $2 billion a year super app

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Anthony Tan is the co-founder and CEO of Grab, a "super app" that has built itself into the very infrastructure of eight major Southeast Asian countries.

Grab provides day-to-day services, such as ride-hailing, payments and food delivery, to over 35 million users. It is also a source of income for more than 13 million drivers and merchants.

The company went public on the Nasdaq in 2021 and brought in $2.36 billion in revenue in 2023, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

Yet, despite coming from a wealthy Malaysian family and attending Harvard Business School, Tan said his journey to success has been far from easy.

"My father used to remind me, 'Your grandfather beat this into our heads, and now it's our turn to beat it into yours. You can sleep all you want when you're dead,'" Tan said.

Fierce competition from Uber and family turmoil were just some of the barriers he had to overcome over the years.

"In a weird kind of way, I'm grateful because it helped me realize I had no other option but to make it work," Tan said.

"Those pushed me to say, 'Look, I can create something that solves real societal problems,'" he added.

Watch the video above to learn more about Grab's rise, as well as what the company hopes to accomplish next.

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His dad is a traditional Chinese businessman with a very successful biz carrying the legacy torch from his father and naturally want AT to continue the legacy build up by his grandfather. So despite of Grab's success, it'll never please his father. But deep down, AT's is sure damn proud of his achievements.

patricktan
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I used grab for Thailand and Indonesia is 2018. Loved it!

sonderexpeditions
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The production quality of this video is incredible. Learned a ton - very inspiring story 👏

Jungernaut
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Should have interviewed the drivers as well....then the whole story would be clear

pravinsukumaran
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It's a lot easier to succeed when you have rich parents, and a great job where your dad owns that company to fall back to. Most people fail and have to go back to a 9-5 and try again in a few years.

forrest
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Enjoyed the storytelling! Made Anthony more relatable than just another founder.

aungerz
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11:57 This part about his dad not speaking to him is so sad.

hacks
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He was born rich, okay? That only benefitted him in taking more risks.

He went to a reputable university and raised capital in a foreign land like anybody else.
He tackled 100's of failures and grew the company in the region like anybody else.
He made the company about the people and not sitting in an ivory tower out of touch with reality.

Sure, he might've had a headstart, but his success is 100% through his abilities. SE Asia should be proud of this guy for putting a home-grown company on the world map.

heavymetalrox
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scooter ride share is even more inhumane form of ride-sharing. 30% cut, no benefits because of "mutual" relationship

eilois
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Why your apps unable to issue invoice for every services 🤔

Dasani
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-70% share price depreciation since IPO 😂

jreyfortich
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lol guy was already a millionaire and got the money from his mum, this is a joke

mrama
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His dad couldn’t accept how the company treats its partners over the years. It’s all on the news.

youtubeattacker
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14 millions jobs for SEA population is remarkable

nooraffendymohamedali
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Spending is easy, I mean.. I'm not sure what's so hard bringing in $2b a year in revenue.. while having net loss of $400m

humbaobao
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Please. His uncle is one of the richest person in Malaysia. He’s from a wealthy family. Easy to build anything.

bavaanipriya
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you can acquire Tan Chong, driverless fleet

synkopy
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This type dont really get respect from mass, simply because he got the luxury of rich background to take risk..

norman
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From rich parent sure can do! He never go thru hardship at all

yeoweehuathuat
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This guy is amazing but hes putting on a show. He talks about helping people earn money and then subsequently talks about autonomous cars which is going to do exactly the opposite of helping people earn money lol

yangli