About Eugene
I started HighSpark at 19, after spending more time selling spiders to classmates than sitting still in school. I've spent the years since helping people explain complex ideas.
I spent more time catching spiders around the void deck and selling them to classmates than I did sitting still in school. The press has returned to that story a few times. I understand why. It is the earliest version of an instinct I still recognise: pay attention to what people care about, then explain it in a way they understand.
I wasn't a good student. I paid attention when I could make or sell something people understood.
As told in e27 / Yahoo News.
In 2013, while we were still in polytechnic, I started HighSpark with Kai Xin Koh. We began by selling presentation design and incorporated the company in 2015.
I still spend most of my time solving the problem we found back then. Strong work gets overlooked when the message is hard to follow or the slides get in the way.
Since then, I've worked with teams at Nike, Mastercard, Oracle, Panasonic, Medtronic, DBS and SMU.
Worked with companies that have raised over $480M+. The figure uses publicly reported funding.
People found the work online too. My decks and presentation advice have been viewed more than three million times. One deck passed a million views, and I ranked in the top 1% of authors on SlideShare.
The work put Kai Xin and me on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2020.
In the press
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