The journal

Faith, business and building in Asia.

Guides to the Faith Driven Entrepreneur movement, stories of Asian founders, and what we have learned from two years of gatherings in Singapore.

FDE basics

What is Faith Driven Entrepreneur (FDE)?

A plain-English guide to the global movement for Christ-following founders, and what it looks like here in Singapore.

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Singapore chapter

How Faith Driven Singapore began: one invitation, one yes

A conversation with Henry Kaestner, a long search for the right co-founders, and a first session at BLOCK71. The origin of Singapore's Faith Driven Entrepreneur chapter.

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Founder stories

A child's prayer for ducks and the faith behind an AI start-up

What Salt&Light's 2024 profile of Aleks Farseev tells us about faith, fear and building a company through a war, and why he still tells the duck story.

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Faith at work

What is redemptive marketing?

A faith-driven answer to digital advertising's transparency and performance problem, from a Forbes Technology Council article by the founder of Faith Driven Singapore.

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Asian FDE stories

Faith Driven Entrepreneurs in Asia

From ride-hailing and wealth management to basketball and natural cosmetics, these are the Asian founders whose stories Faith Driven Entrepreneur tells, and where to watch them.

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Asian FDE stories

Anthony Tan and Grab: excellence as service

Southeast Asia's best-known start-up began with a question about who gets home safely. Here is how Faith Driven Entrepreneur tells the story of Grab's co-founder, and what founders in Singapore can take from it.

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Asian FDE stories

"No Out of Bounds": Phil Chen and the New Taipei Kings

A venture capitalist, pastor and team owner on why identity comes before achievement, told through one of Taiwan's most successful basketball clubs.

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FDE basics

The Foundation Course: all eight sessions explained

What each session of the Faith Driven Entrepreneur Foundation Course covers, which films play, which questions get discussed, and where to watch Singapore's recorded sessions.

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Insights

What 22 sessions taught us: 7 insights from Singapore's faith-driven founders

We recorded, transcribed and coded two years of Faith Driven Singapore conversations. Here is what the data says Christ-following founders in Singapore care about.

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Faith at work

Don't worship work: burnout, hustle and the Sabbath

What FDE's third session teaches, what Singapore founders said when they answered honestly, and a practical way to start working from rest.

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