The Bamboo Company
In these Startup Profiles, we talked to the YSI SEA Fellows of the Innovation Programme 2020 and asked them about their startups, challenges and ideas for a more sustainable future.
The Bamboo Company is an enterprise that reimagines the future with bamboo as sustainable material. They aim to put bamboo in all parts of one's life, from houses to products, from food to furnitures.🏡
The Bamboo Company is one of the startups in our Innovation Programme 2020. We talked to the YSI SEA Fellow behind it: Jamico Jamlang.
.Watch the video below to see them him about his startup (at 2:32) in greater detail! Scroll down for the rest of the interview.
Jamico is a chemical engineer with experience as a packaging executive for Nestle. He has background as well on Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship from the University of Connecticut, USA and venture finance from University of Oxford, UK.
He runs his own social enterprise, The Bamboo Company, which reimagines the future with bamboo as an incredibly promising sustainable material. They aim to put bamboo in all parts of everyday life, from houses to daily products, from food to furniture, and Balay Qubo, a market place platform for sustainable and local products.
Can you tell us about your startup?
The Bamboo Company is a social enterprise that works with bamboo, that aims to solve global issues such as climate change, poverty, plastic pollution and deforestation. We do this by producing, planting and selling bamboo products.
What made you interested in social impact?
Throughout my life, I've been fascinated and amazed by nature. This is the reason why I love travelling, and going to different places across the globe. I want to ensure that the stories of today, like the beautiful scenarios, and the beautiful landscapes that we can see, are something that can be told in the future. And I want the future generations to be able to see them.
What is a lesson you would like to share with aspiring entrepreneurs?
During the time you would experience all the things as an entrepreneur… those times that you would fail are the most powerful ones. It is through failure that you would learn a lot; it will mold you and make you more mature as an entrepreneur .
What is success to you?
Whenever I change some people’s lives. It is during those times when other people would tell me that they are very happy for me to assist them, or are very happy for my enterprise, or the things that I’m doing exists.
Catch Jamico and the rest of the 23 regional impact entrepreneurs at the YSI SEA Demo Day 2020!
