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Toku’s CEO Laboulle: Who says the next enterprise giant can’t come from Singapore?

Julian Wong
Julian Wong • 7 min read
Toku’s CEO Laboulle: Who says the next enterprise giant can’t come from Singapore?
"We are not looking to be a blip on the radar. I'm looking to build something that lasts," says Thomas Laboulle, CEO of Toku. Photo: Toku
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Imagine you run a food delivery platform across Southeast Asia. Then a customer in Vietnam complains about a missing order. It sounds simple enough — except Vietnamese regulations require that the conversation data stay within the country’s borders.

The platform’s customers in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand don’t just face different data-storage rules. In some jurisdictions, all data processing must happen locally. Others ban call recordings and media from leaving the country’s borders. And a few markets go even further, requiring the application servers themselves to be hosted in-country.

Meanwhile, the company’s leadership wants a single dashboard showing every customer interaction across all 11 markets.

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