This company wants to catch all the startups

SINGAPORE (Dec 13): Two and a half years were all Patrick Grove needed to know that he was not meant to be an accountant.

“All I [ever] wanted to do was to build and grow [companies], whereas all an accountant does is to count,” he tells Enterprise in an interview. “It just wasn’t for me”.

So in 1999 as the dotcom bubble was rapidly expanding, Grove left the now-defunct Big Five accounting firm Arthur Andersen to found an online search engine and portal in Malaysia called Catcha.com. He was just 24.

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