Rachel Lim wants to raise the style stakes for other females, while building their confidence to take on the world.
Young entrepreneurs often benefit from the guidance of a mentor. But for Rachel Lim, it was books, and people, that taught her how to run a business. “When I started Love, Bonito, I didn’t have a chance to work under someone nor did I graduate from any business school,” says Lim, the 31-year-old co-founder who dropped out of university at 19 to build the home-grown women swear label with co-founder Viola Tan and former co-founder Velda Tan.
The self-starter’s avid consumption of business and leadership books appears to have paid off. In 2016, she was honoured in the inaugural Forbes Asia “30 Under 30” hall of fame, placing her alongside other such young luminaries as Carousell co-founder Quek Siu Rui and Lai Chang Wen, co-founder of logistics provider Ninja Van.
This story is from the December 2018 edition of The PEAK Singapore.
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