Anthony Tan is a Malaysian businessman.

He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of

Grab Holding Inc, a publicly-traded technology company (Chua Kong Ho, 2018). The company
developed a Grab super-app, which provides users with transportation, food delivery and digital
payments services via a mobile app. Grab currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. It is Southeast Asia's first unicorn,
and the biggest technology startup in the region (Chai, Rachel Genevieve, 2018)

Founding and expansion

While Anthony tan was at Harvard Business School, the idea of creating a taxi-booking mobile
app for Southeast Asia, similar to those being pioneered in the US motivated him to make taxi
rides safer in Malaysia. Tan launched the "My Teksi" app in Malaysia in 2012 together with Tan
Hooi Ling, another Harvard graduate. MyTeksi was started with an initial grant of US$25,000
from Harvard Business School and Anthony Tan's personal capital. (Tan, Anthony, 2011)

In the year 2013 Grab or GrabTaxi at that time began to EXPAND BY VARIOUS
PARTNERSHIP in different southeast Asian countries.
In august 2013, GrabTaxi expanded to the Philippines (Calvin, 2014) and to Singapore and
Thailand in October of the same year.
In 2014, Grab in partnership with HDT Holdings, introduced 100 BYD e6 electric taxis in
Singapore to form the biggest e-taxi fleet in Southeast Asia (Gerard Lye, 2017). At that same
year GrabTaxi further continued its growth and expansion to new countries: first launching in Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in February, and Jakarta in Indonesia in June (Do, Anh-Minh, 2014).

In May 2014, They also launches ADDITIONAL FEATURES in terms of transportation such:
1. GrabCar as an alternative form of transportation that uses personal cars instead of taxis
through a licensed partner in an effort to overcome the lack of public transportation
during peak hours. (Schnabel, Chris, 2015).
2. GrabBike's motorcycle service rides had spread throughout Vietnam and Indonesia by
the year 2015. GrabBike also provides medical insurance for their passengers and drivers.
(Tay D. and Leesa Nguansuk S. 2015)
3. GrabCar+ (a service that provides a fleet of higher-end cars) in the Philippines In
February 2015(Schnabel, Chris, 2015).
4. GrabExpress courier service. In November 2015, Grab launched
 In January 2016, GrabTaxi was rebranded as "Grab" with a new, redesigned logo (Lee, 2016)
and
ADDITIONAL SERVICES was made which relates to the side of the social media:
1. GrabChat - an in-app instant messaging feature to allow simple communication between
riders and drivers and translate messages if the set languages of the driver and passenger
are different in October 2016
2. In December 2016, Grab launched the GrabRewards rewards programme and
GrabShare taxi and car-sharing services (Tegos, 2016).
3. In February 2017, Grab launched the GrabCoach service for booking large passenger
vehicles (Tegos, 2016).
4. In March 2017, Grab introduced GrabFamily for young children below 7 years old, to
fulfill regulations where children under 1.35 metres must be placed on a child booster
seat or child restraint (Shazni, 2017).
5. Later that month, Grab launched a simplified flat-fare structure, JustGrab (Lim, 2017).

MERGIND AND TOOK OVER

Grab inc. continues to expand by merging with Uber's Southeast Asian operation in March 2018
and Grab took over Uber's assets and operations, including UberEats, which led to Grab's
expansion of food delivery services (Keeton-Olsen 2018).
6. Grab also launched their eScooter rental service known as GrabWheels in March 2018.
7. In November 2017, Grab launched GrabPay payment service as a digital payment
service among third-party merchants, allowing users to use the app for purchases outside
of ride-hailing.
8. May 2018, Grab launched GrabFood food delivery service.
And more
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