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Non-notable individual. There is substantial coverage of the company he founded, but not about him as an individual. I suggest this should be redirected to Spin (company). SmartSE (talk) 15:21, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Spin (company). The sources definitely provide notability to the company but not himself. Meszzy² (talk) 17:09, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources addressing the notability of the individual have been added. These are in line with other sources that assert the notability of other entrepreneurs; more can be added.Samefox8 (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see sources about the company but not about the individual himself. Meszzy² (talk) 05:30, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Tech in Asia piece at https://www.techinasia.com/asian-values-american-dream-ford-spent-100m-singaporeanfounded-scooter-startup seems to address this. It'd be helpful to see an example of a piece about an entrepreneur completely disassociated with the prominent company he founded. Samefox8 (talk) 18:44, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources do not need to be completely disassociated with the company, the question here however is in terms of notability - is the individual notable enough for his own page? We usually show notability by the presence of secondary sources with the individual being the subject of that source as it shows that a news organization has dedicated editorial resources to reporting on that individual, meaning that the individual is of public interest. The problem with this individual in my view is that the sources are simply due to public interest in the company, but not the individual themselves. I cannot view the article you linked as its behind a paywall, but it does look like it is about this individual. However, it would seem to me that just one secondary source is not enough to prove notability for an entire article. WP:GNG does state that "multiple [secondary] sources are generally expected." In my opinion the only thing of public interest regarding this individual is the company, not really himself, whereas for a more notable entrepreneur, their birthday or where they went to school for example is of public interest, along with other aspects about them, which is why they receive their own article. This public interest is usually shown by an article meeting the requirements in WP:GNG, or more specifically for people WP:BASIC. Meszzy² (talk) 21:37, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. There are multiple secondary sources, though some are behind paywall (TechInAsia and ^[1]) and some are podcasts ^[2]^[3]. Will return to this discussion with more sources. Samefox8 (talk) 18:22, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]