The Gen.T honouree talks AI, endurance sports and micro-pivots
Unsure of what he wanted to do in life, Mark Koh left his career path to fate. “On my university application, I listed three course choices: marine biology, architecture and commerce. I let the course and university ‘choose’ me, instead of the other way around. When I was accepted into the University of Sydney for commerce, I just went with it,” he says.
And that's far from the only surprising discovery about the tech entrepreneur. Here's three things you need to know about Supahands co-founder and CEO Mark Koh.
1. This is far from his first startup
After graduation, Koh worked for a boutique financial planning practice in Sydney. Before too long, he realised he wanted to do something on his own. Past endeavours included underwater diving tours and several tech-based businesses that were “way too ahead of their time to be successful in those days”.
He has no regrets though. “I was open to trying and taking risks by saying yes to different business ideas. If it didn’t work out, I’d just start again,” he says.
This optimism eventually led him to co-found Supahands, a tech startup that provides data at scale and speed for artificial intelligence products and businesses, using a hybrid of human intelligence and machine learning.
