About Quek Siu Rui
I’m looking to team up with people who are equally passionate about making selling simple and accessible to all, and in building meaningful impact for the world from here in Southeast Asia. Some of the roles that I'm eagerly looking to learn from and work with are seniors & leaders for our roles like Director of Engineering, Director of Product and many more.
Come take a peek at our team, core values and open positions here: http://careers.carousell.com
- Spent a year in Silicon Valley and fell in love with technology, came back to Singapore with a passion to solve meaningful problems at a global scale with tech
- Stumbled upon a personal problem that resonated with a lot more people than us 3 co-founders after we demo-ed a prototype our team hacked together in 54 hours at Startup Weekend
- Dropped my honours year to start Carousell with my co-founders Lucas and Marcus full-time in May 2012
- Bootstrapped our way to being No.1 Shopping app in Singapore since Jan 2014 with an app that makes selling as easy as taking a photo, and buying as simple as chatting
- Discovered that this was not just a problem unique to Singapore, but a truly global one! Hence began our international expansion with the support of world class investors Sequoia Capital, Rakuten Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, 500 Startups, EDBi, DBS
- Inspired daily by stories of how Carousell has made the lives of our community of millions of users across 19 cities more meaningful
- Feel very lucky to work alongside our passionate & talented teammates of 20+ nationalities based across 7 countries
- Excited to continue making selling simple and meaningful to serve the 4 billion new internet users that will be coming online with smartphones by 2020: Classifieds 4.0 (and beyond)
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