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Open For Business
The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (fath...
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From Bugs to Bursa? Pet World's Ambitious Next Chapter
When Choy Peng Yew last appeared on the show in early 2023, Pet World was on a massive growth trajectory. As Malaysia's largest homegrown pet food man...
Hata: $8M Series A, Bybit CEO Backing, & New Crypto
Fresh off an $8 million Series A funding round co-led personally by the CEO of Bybit, David Low, Co-Founder and CEO of Hata, unpacks what’s next for t...
26 Years, 15 Films & the Business No One Tells You About
Red Communications has been running since 1999 — 26 years of producing television, film, branded content, and digital programming for audiences that t...
The RM100M Bet on Automated Parking
In Japan and South Korea, parking a car is entirely automated. You drive into a bay, turn off your engine, and walk away while a robotic system lifts...
The Farm That Heals What Classrooms Can't
After a 30-year career at PETRONAS, a pandemic-induced mental health challenge pushed Zalina Abdul Rahim to completely rethink her retirement. Retreat...
Building a Six-Figure Global AI Agency Before Graduation
The enterprise AI market is currently flooded with polished demos, confident sales pitches, and massive invoices. But behind the scenes, many of these...
The Robot Revolution On The Retail Floor
Edwin Yap's family built the physical infrastructure of retail. As the leaders of Jemco Group, they grew the family business into Malaysia's largest p...
KPJ Healthcare: 3 Million Patients, One Standard of Care.
With a massive network of 30 hospitals serving over 3 million patients annually, KPJ Healthcare faces the massive challenge of ensuring consistent, hi...
Building the Waze of Malaysian Healthcare
After spending decades in clinical medicine and digital health, Dr. Raymond Choy analysed over three million data points on drug pricing and uncovered...
How Two Skaters Built a Business to Fund the Dream Malaysia Wouldn't
To compete at the international level, Malaysian National Figure Skaters Eunice and Edmund Lai train six hours a day on ice that costs money, with coa...
From Bedroom YouTuber to a Seven Figure Finance Group
In 2017, Spark Liang quit a comfortable job as a Thomson Reuters analyst to make financial literacy videos from his bedroom. Within six months, he org...
What A Horse Knows About Your Leadership, That You Don’t
Malaysia's corporate training market runs on slides, seminars, and motivational talks. It is also, by most accounts, not working. Burnout is at record...
Two Childhood Friends, A Game & A Million Views in Japan
Childhood friends and lifelong gamers Kashif Khairul and Rizal Azlan co-founded 1+1 Studios in 2024 with one conviction: that the best co-op games sho...
The Stage Has Changed. Define’s Principles Haven't.
Andrew Anthony has been in the events industry since 1995 — when he was still in school, working as an event crewmember to fund his own education, wit...
The ESG Firm That Was 15 Years Early, Then Right On Time Time
ESG guidance and advisory firm Joshua Rayan Communications (JRC) was established in 2007 with one clear conviction: that sustainability reporting shou...
Two Pilots, A Grill & A Burger Place
In November 2022, two grounded pilots came on Open For Business to talk about a smash burger stall they'd started from a home kitchen during the pande...
The Immigrant Story Behind America's Most Unlikely Aerospace Company
In 1977, Theresa Padilla moved from Mexico to the United States with nothing. Three years later, she took a job as a press operator at a small plastic...
Not a Nursing Home. Not a Daycare. Something Better.
By 2048, Malaysia will officially be an aged nation, yet currently, only 14.7 percent of our elderly are actually ageing healthily. The traditional el...
The LEGO Alternative That Went Global Before It Had An Office
LEGO is one of the most valuable toy brands in the world. It is also, for a large portion of its most devoted fans, out of reach — either because the...
It Takes Shallot of Work to Fix Malaysian Agriculture
Malaysia spends over RM1 billion importing onions every single year. For decades, it was assumed that our local soil and climate were fundamentally ho...
The Computer That Runs On Your Brain Cells
Most conversations about the future of technology are framed entirely around Artificial Intelligence. But what if the next massive leap in computing i...
Unlocking Land Value and the Future of Cyberjaya
For three decades, Cyberview has operated primarily as the landowner and custodian of Cyberjaya. Now, the agency is making a massive strategic pivot t...
Selkirk’s Garage Origins, $200M Valuation & KL Expansion
How did Selkirk scale a "mom-and-pop" hobby into a $200 million pickleball performance powerhouse?
In 2014, long before pickleball became...
The RM250K Nursery That Refuses to Scale Wrong
In Malaysia's RM6 billion early childhood education market, the default playbook is simple: pack in as many children as possible, keep educator costs...
Senang: From Micro-Insurance to Financial Supermarket
Senang has quietly become one of Malaysia's most interesting insurtech stories. The company hit EBITDA profitability in 2024. Gross Written Premium re...
Automating the Front Desk for Visit Malaysia 2026
For independent hotels and boutique operators across Southeast Asia, managing guest communication can be a logistical nightmare. Understaffed front de...
How a TikTok Math Tutor Built a Seven Figure Business
Debbie Soh started her career as a home tutor before pivoting to an online model during the pandemic. By leveraging free, short-form math content on s...
Why Good Pet Groomers Are Harder to Find Than Customers
Adrian Goh has been in the pet care game since 2004, eventually launching Wet Nose in 2011 to create a completely bootstrapped, neighbourhood pet hub....
The Real Hustle Behind Malaysia’s Biggest Indian Food Court
Virunthu at KL Town is currently recognised as Malaysia’s largest Indian food court, operating a vibrant, community-driven dining ecosystem. The platf...
Getting High-Spending Tourists to Sleep in the Forest
The Hooton Retreat is a premium glamping and eco-tourism site in Negeri Sembilan.
By leveraging its direct adjacency to a permanent forest rese...
Baking Cakes That Actually Taste As Good As They Look
Transforming a creative passion into a sustainable business requires strict pricing strategies and solid operational systems. Lakhshmi Priya Suppiah,...
Why Investors Just Put RM10M Into This Malaysian Accounting School
Founded in 2020, TYMBA Education Group entered the market to address low pass rates and limited access to accounting qualifications outside major citi...
Inside Malaysia's Multi-Million Ringgit Preschool Empire
The Ministry of Education recently updated its guidelines to allow optional Standard 1 enrolment for six-year-olds. While this policy provides familie...
Putting the Yellow School Bus in Your Pocket
Every single day, millions of students step onto a school bus and embark on what is largely an "invisible journey." For the hour they are on the road,...
The ROI of the Skyline: 14 Years of The Marini’s Group
The Kuala Lumpur F&B industry can be brutal. Most trendy dining spots survive for two or three years before becoming obsolete. Yet, 14 years on, The M...
I Dreamt of Washing Shoes (And It Made Me 5 Figures)
Gurcharanvir Singh built his company because he had a dream about washing shoes.
Three years later, Guchi Cuci is a highly profitable, 5-...
The PropTech Rebellion: How MyRumahBaru is Changing Real Estate
For years, the Malaysian property market has been dominated by a legacy "discovery-only" portal model. Real estate agents are forced to pay RM3,000 to...
The FMCG Playbook: How Fukuro Scaled to RM14M Without VC Funding
Fukuro Malaysia was founded in 2019 to fill the "missing middle" in the kitchenware market. Co-founders Daryl Lai and Kevin Lau recognised that local...
Preserving Amachi's Legacy One Appam At A Time
Amachi’s Palagaram is a brand dedicated entirely to preserving traditional Indian sweets and savories. What began as a heartfelt weekend project opera...
Polar Cold: The Agritech Startup Rebuilding Urban Refrigeration
In Southeast Asia, nearly 40% of food is wasted before it ever reaches the consumer. Much of this spoilage happens in the "last mile"—the chaotic jour...