Profile: JFDI.Asia's Hugh Mason
As co-founder of Singapore-based JFDI.Asia, Hugh Mason has been at the vanguard of the Asia tech accelerator movement since 2010. But his record as an entrepreneur and innovator goes back further
Hugh Mason started out like many tech entrepreneurs of his generation: as a spotty teenager sitting in his bedroom fiddling around with electrical components and playing with code. In fact, Mason was only...
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