Digitising the ‘karang guni’ business

SINGAPORE (July 4): Twenty-seven year-old Daniel Wong is building a business to make it easier for people to recycle, while providing jobs for ex-convicts and the elderly and potentially making a lot of money.

Long before he became the founder of online rag-and-bone service Karang-guni.com, Wong had an early head start in “entrepreneurship”.

A bookie at the age of 13, he had taken bets from his classmates and made handsome profit in the process. He soon became so popular that his clientele expanded to include students from neighbouring schools. Soon, the police found out and he was expelled from school.

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