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Starting a start-up: From failing General Paper in school to building space rockets

The start-up scene is packed with flashy funding announcements, but what goes on behind the glitz and glamour? In this new series, The Straits Times sits down with Singapore’s start-up founders to learn how they developed their ideas, and what it takes to ride the roller coaster of entrepreneurship.

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Mr Simon Gwozdz, 32, founder and chief executive of Equatorial Space at his office on Sep 25, 2023.

Mr Simon Gwozdz is the chief executive and founder of Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-headquartered rocket propulsion and space launch start-up.

ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR

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SINGAPORE – When Mr Simon Gwozdz was studying at the Millennia Institute in Singapore, his strongest subject was not language, mathematics or the sciences.

It was geography.

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