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FE ATU R E D M ENTO R
easyuni.com: Making University
Search a Breeze for Future Generations
From a start-up in 2010, easyuni.com has grown to become the No.1 platform in Malaysia and
Indonesia for students and parents searching for universities and colleges around the world,
find information, read student reviews, and connect with counselors. Currently, easyuni.com
has helped more than 3,000,000 students, and the mastermind behind all this is the CEO of
easyuni.com, Edwin Tay Heng Aun. We caught up with him recently for a short interview.
Tell us briefly about yourself and about what you’re
doing now?
I’m the CEO and co-founder of easyuni.com. After selling off
my first company – a digital agency that I started in 2010,
my co-founders and I decided to start easyuni.com with the
vision that we can make a difference in the lives of future
generations by providing them a platform to help them
make accurate decisions in choosing a course and university.
70 percent of working adults surveyed mentioned that, given
a chance, they would choose a different course to do in
university. This error in judgement leads to a lot of heartache
and lost opportunities. With easyuni, we hope to give them
all the necessary information, advice and tools to empower
them to make the right decision.
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What would you describe as the five key traits every
aspiring entrepreneur should have?
There are many traits, such as passion, intelligence, discipline,
hard work, and so on. But the one most important trait in
my opinion is GRIT. Grit, in my definition, is the ability to
keep going at it – no matter what people say, no matter the
failures and rejections – until success is found.
Looking back over the last ten years, what would you say
are achievements you’re most proud of?
I’m proud of successfully exiting my first company via a trade
sale to a public listed company. My shareholders got good
returns, my staff were absorbed and did not lose their jobs
and our clients were taken care of. In the end, the company
brand lived on and it went to a better place where it can
grow to the next level.