Forbes Asia (August 2021)

80 pages. Features: *Two young MIT grads and a bariatric surgeon are gambling on a new miniature surgical robot to make abdominal surgery faster, safer and cheaper-and bear the industry's goliath *High gear: Aaron Tan's Carro has become a unicorn, but remains in a tight race to lead Southeast Asia's online used car market against some tough competitors *100 to watch: Asia-Pacific's small companies and startups on the rise *Taking shape: Dylan Field sculpted Figma into design software's hottest startup, valued at $10 billion, by listening first and letting the market and customers guide its research and development *Forward momentum: Bukalapaks's CEO Rachmat Kaimuddin must battle big rivals and the pandemic for Indonesia's e-commerce market-with help from a historic IPO *Charting new waters: Pontiac Land;s Evan Kwee is pushing past the pandemic with a new resort development in the Maldives as part of the Kwee family's expansion out of Singapore and into the global high-end hospitality market *Comeback season: Fortunes get a boost amid a rebounding stock market and economy *The last computer tycoon: After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century, borrowing and flipping his way to a $50 billion fortune. His biggest ambitions lie ahead-and they have nothing to do with space *Curing Crypto's climate crisis: Bitcoin mining wastes enough power annually to power Belgium, unnecessarily adding 40 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. As countries from China to Indonesia clamp down on the practice, these American entrepreneurs are cashing in-and, paradoxically, making the planet a little greener along the way