Published On Sep 19, 2021
Lincoln Lee Ming is a Malaysian social entrepreneur, biomedical science graduate from University College London, UK & founder of a social enterprise called Rice Inc., which seeks to combat the 26 million tons of rice wasted during production every year & help smallholder rice farmers break through the convoluted supply chain.
Here is his journey.
Highlights
0:00 Entering a new world in secondary school
2:13 Dabbling in entrepreneurship at age 13
5:41 Running a past year paper printing startup
9:12 Studying biomedical sciences
9:47 Organising a pokemon walkathon
13:03 Switching from biomedical sciences to entrepreneurship at UCL
16:35 How Lincoln ended up joining the HULT Prize competition
20:07 How Lincoln & his team started tackling the HULT Prize problem statement
24:47 How Rice Inc decided to focus on Vietnam
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