Thai tycoon's grandson takes on Slack in enterprise messaging market

Thai tycoon's grandson takes on Slack in enterprise messaging market

Eko founder and CEO Korawad Chearavanont.

Asian IT visionaries have built billion-dollar empires with staggering numbers of users. But one thing they have not done is create a killer app that is truly used worldwide. Even giants like China’s Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings mainly cater to local or overseas Chinese consumers and companies.