tony fernandes is one of my favorite entrepreneurs that no one talks about the amount of shit this guy has survived / attempted over the last 25 years is ridiculous > spent 14 years in the music industry & had zero airline experience > mortgaged his house + put in his own savings to take over a failing airline for $0.25 alongside $11m in debt (got 2 airplanes to start with) > three days after the deal went through, 9/11 happened > turned it profitable within roughly a year > then survived SARS, bird flu, the 2004 tsunami, record oil prices & the global financial crisis > in 2014 one of their planes crashed, killing all 162 people onboard > then covid grounded basically the entire airline and pushed the company into financial distress > instead of just waiting for travel to return, they tried turning airasia into a super app: food delivery, ride hailing, parcels, fintech, hotels, flights etc > that eventually became MOVE - which today has 16m+ monthly users and did $1.3b in gross bookings in a single quarter > spent almost 6 years restructuring the entire company after covid > completed the restructuring in 2026, separated the airline from Capital A & finally exited its financial distress status > then immediately went back on offense and ordered 150 airbus A220s, the largest A220 order ever, with options for another 150 > they even tried to cancel my boi for posting a shirtless image of him getting massaged in the office every time i feel down, people like tony serve as a reminder that this journey is supposed to be freaking hard