<article>The <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.mymagic.my/" target="_blank">Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre</a> (MaGIC) is hiring ‘failed entrepreneurs’, to encourage the individuals to rejoin or remain in the ecosystem and give their talent a second chance.</article>

The <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.mymagic.my/" target="_blank">Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre</a> (MaGIC) is hiring ‘failed entrepreneurs’, to encourage the individuals to rejoin or remain in the ecosystem and give their talent a second chance.
CEO Cheryl Yeoh said during a live interview session with <a href="http://www.mindvalley.com/" target="_blank">Mindvalley</a> founder Vishen Lakhiani that it was no surprise that the startup ecosystem would have many ventures that did not make it. Rather than letting the entrepreneurs recoil and drop out from the ecosystem, MaGIC believed in retaining or absorbing them, mutually benefiting both the entrepreneurs and the entire ecosystem, she said.
“We are hiring failed entrepreneurs. I think it’s awesome that they have tried and I want entrepreneurs to stay in the system, otherwise how would they know what it is like to really be an entrepreneur, to fail and succeed,” she told the audience at the ‘Inside The Mind Of..’ session.
Yeoh recalled an episode in November last year at Stanford University where over 50 selected Malaysian entrepreneurs were given an opportunity to learn and network with renown faculty and industry experts under the <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.mymagic.my/programs/estanford/" target="_blank">e@Stanford Programme</a>.
“In one of the sessions, a Stanford University professor said: ‘Do you know more than half of you will fail?&#8217; And all of them were a quite aghast. They took it so seriously,” she shared, “I got up and said that if half of them failed, the other half who succeeded should hire the rest. And it was like a light bulb appeared, suddenly they were seeing failure in a new light and that they should get to know each other better.”
Yeoh noted that the Silicon Valley culture was exactly like that.
“There are so many startups, and of course some of them will fail because the supply outweighs the demand for products and services. What happens in Silicon Valley is then the weaker startups get absorbed into the bigger startups, and that’s okay because that makes the successful companies stronger. It’s not a failure that you are now part of a better vehicle,” she commented.
Answering a question about what can be done to create more entrepreneurs in Malaysia, Yeoh said that a change was needed, especially in the local education system, so that students get to explore their passion and talent, and learn that failure is part of growth.
“Accepting failure &#8211; we need to teach people that failure is okay,” she said, emphasising the need to eradicate the taboo of failure.
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