Richard Ker

Chief Storyteller & Founder at Richard Ker Digital

Richard Ker’s journey is a study in unlikely beginnings and deliberate reinvention. Raised on a rubber estate in Tawau, Sabah, far from the traditional centres of opportunity, he taught himself to build websites, went on to launch a one-man global e-commerce business repairing iPhones out of a Beijing Starbucks, and spent two decades living and working across the UK and China. Today, as a content creator with nearly half a million followers and the founder of his own social media marketing agency, Richard has built his career around one enduring principle: that storytelling remains one of the most powerful tools for creating opportunity. His path reflects a belief that where you begin does not define how far you can go, but how well you learn to shape and share your story.

In Their Words

It’s easy to be famous. But what value do you truly bring to the world?

Every person has a purpose. But not everyone has the privilege to discover it.

A lot of founders build great products, but they struggle to sell.

Everyone has something to share. They just don’t realise it.

The goal isn’t just to create content. It’s to stop the scroll.

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The Scroll-Stopping Power of Storytelling: How Richard Ker is Helping Businesses Understand and Navigate the Attention Economy

Malaysia SME+

Richard Ker was born in Tawau, on the east coast of Sabah — a place affectionately dubbed the final frontier of Malaysia. It is the furthest you could travel from Kuala Lumpur, and growing up in a rubber plantation without internet or much infrastructure, his world felt both remote and limitless.

Good brand storytelling matters, here’s how Richard Ker does it

Vulcan Post • 15 Dec 2023

Recently, at Startup Week Malaysia, we got to sit in on a talk by Richard Ker. Titled “Storytelling to Grow Your Startup”, it was all about why storytelling matters and how startups can do it.

https://www.bfm.my/content/podcast/social-media-and-licensing-what-do-we-know

BFM 89.9 • 31 Dec 2024

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is introducing a new regulation to maintain a secure digital environment. Effective 1 August 2024, social media and messaging platforms with over 8 million users must be licensed in Malaysia.