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Left school at 16, but mental healthcare start-up founder now works with Fortune 500 companies

Jovi Ho
Jovi Ho • 5 min read
Left school at 16, but mental healthcare start-up founder now works with Fortune 500 companies
Launched last April, Intellect has signed more than 20 enterprise clients, including Foodpanda, Shopback, Carousell and Schroders.
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At 16, Theodoric Chew was on track for academic success when he was enrolled in Raffles Institution, a school that counts Singaporean politicians among its alumni.

But Chew’s interest in his studies was waning. Outside of school, he was working on side hustles in drop shipping, a business model that allows entrepreneurs to start an online business and sell products to their buyers without ever actually stocking the items themselves.


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