You could say that Victor Kho's first business lessons came at the age of 10. Unlike many boys his age who might have opened a lemonade stand, he thought a Red Guard troupe would be a splendid idea.
He was living in Guangzhou, after all, caught in the early rumblings of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and nothing could have grabbed hold of a young boy's ambition like the idea of putting on a red armband and running around telling grown-ups what Mao Zedong's thought was all about.
So the pugnacious little Mr Kho walked into the local police station and applied for permission to open a 'Little' Red Guard unit. Amazingly, he received it.
He then hand-printed some recruitment flyers on wax paper and pushed them into every mailbox in his neighbourhood. The next day a line of applicants ran down the street outside his house.
The non-profit venture was short-lived, though, as the early innocence of the Cultural Revolution gave way to cynically orchestrated violence between factions across the country and the Little Red Guards disbanded.
But an entrepreneurial streak was born that would serve the grown-up Mr Kho well later in life.