#Introduceyourself: Hi Steemit, I'm Aaron! Here's Why I'm Here

I decided to start writing my first Steemit post after lurking for months on another account.

My motivation came after reading about testimonials on how fellow Steemians turned their life around just by blogging on this platform.

My name is Aaron from Malaysia. I’m an entrepreneur and a huge believer of cryptocurrency and blockchain in general.

I have a simple yet important goal in Steemit — to generate enough value here so that I can finally retire my parents.

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How I plan to contribute content to Steemit?

As I was planning this #introductionyourself post, I want to be clear on the kind of content I'm able to produce for the Steemit community. It was a struggle to decide as I have wore so many hats in life.

So I asked my friends in Facebook about the kind of topics I should write:

After talking to some close friends and family, someone reminded me that I like to teach and develop people. I’m all about helping people close to me to acquire the right mindset, attitude and strategy in life .. which boils down to this missions statement below:

I want my followers to achieve a fulfilled and productive life.
My target audience are millennials who wants to achieve more in life, whether in their career or their personal lives.

I have derived four content pillars that I’m aiming to develop content for Steemians:

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4 Content Pillars:

1. Authentic Life Lessons
   This is where I will share the ups and downs in my own personal development journey in generating more wealth, health, happiness, and success in general.

2. Explaining Cryptocurrency
   I only have an intermediate understanding of crypto and blockchain, but I’m committed to continuously learn by teaching. Hopefully, my friends and followers would find my content helpful in grasping the significance of these innovations are for society.

3. Entrepreneurship
   I’ve never worked in the corporate world. What I do have is the experience of building small businesses — doing all the management, operations, marketing, sales by myself.

4. Showcasing Malaysia
   This country located in South East Asia is where I was born, raised, and currently based. The Steemit community deserves to be educated on the abundance of good food, beaches, highlands, rainforest, and shopping malls Malaysia has to offer.

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Let me know at the comments if you agree with the direction of these content. I also accept new suggestions.

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Origin Story

I grew up in a financially challenged household. That circumstance alone should pushed me to be more entrepreneurial in life.

But it didn’t.

I was living a life of mediocrity up until I was 21 years old.

Something changed in me when my parents showed me their vulnerability and inability in managing the financial affairs of our family.

Furthermore, my younger brother has autism. He would have more challenges than the average person to achieve independence in life.

I’m was and still is … their best hope to generate sustainable wealth back to the family.

Long story short, I became extremely self-driven, acquired some key skillsets that would eventually helped me to become self-sustainable through freelancing.

The capital and experience I gained from my freelancing career helped fuelled my entrepreneurship journey in establishing several small businesses in software development and digital media publishing.

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Professional Background

I was fortunate to either start or were involved in early startups in software development and digital media publishing.

Currently, I married the two industries together to form a startup studio with a few business partners that help brands and governments innovate and launch their own startups.

Highlighted professional experience:

• first venture generated 1M on the first year in business
• build a community mobile app with 50K users
• hired and managed a team of 100+ people
• launch content portals that are read by 5M+ eaders monthly
• exited a business valued at 8M (local currency)
• invited to global conferences, meeting the likes of Barack Obama (twice!), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sergey Brin (Google), Travis Kalanick (Uber), Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Daymond John (Shark Tank), etc.

Invitation to the biggest conference I’ve ever attended

One of my most memorable day meeting President Obama

• featured through media interviews on the likes of edGY! by The Edge, The Star, Next Up Asia, Bloomberg TV Malaysia, Digital News Asia, and The Malay Mail.

My first media mention

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Community Involvement

Along the way, I have volunteered in several social enterprises/projects like:

• Potential Matrix™, a book features successful young talents around the world whose good works have been featured on CNN, TIME, Forbes, Guinness World Records, and many more.
• Incitement, which is a global movement focused on inciting positivity & change.
• TEDxKL, where in 2014, we broke the record of organising the biggest TEDx in Asia ever!
• Selected as one of the top 300 youth to attend Global Startup Youth which is a global summit gathering coders, hustlers, domain experts and youth leaders from over 100 countries to come up with innovative solutions to solve the world's pressing problems.

Global Startup Youth

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SUMMARY

Thank you for reading this far. I would like to end the post by asking fellow Steemians to comment to recommend either of the following:

• Top Steemit authors I should follow
• All-time best Steemit posts
• Steemit authors I should get connected with

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