With over 1,000 languages, Southeast Asia is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world—and that’s a challenge for businesses trying to operate with talent and customers right next door.
“The language barrier can be a huge issue,” Kisson Lin, co-founder and chief operating officer for Singaporean AI startup Mindverse AI at the Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore conference on Tuesday. “We have different colleagues from different regions speaking different languages. It’s not only that you [find] it hard to collaborate, but also hard to bond with each other.”
