“It burned me inside that no one cared what I did,” says self-confessed “expat brat” Erman Akinci, co-founder and managing partner at Emissary Capital, a boutique investment firm based in Kuala Lumpur, on Crazy Smart Asia. In conversation with Gen.T’s Lee Williamson, Akinci—who is also co-founder of Common Ground, one of Southeast Asia’s biggest co-working spaces—shares how he found his business “gut”, how a savage putdown from his secondary school maths teacher changed everything, and why you should always beware the fabled “last minute lawyer”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.