How 3 friends without any hospitality experience started renting out over 400 tiny homes in remote locations around the world [Video]

How nice would it be to leave everything behind, unplug from the world, and relax abroad?

This thought lingered in Adrian Chia’s mind after a two-week family vacation exploring the Great Ocean Road in Melbourne in 2016.

Shortly after returning home to Singapore, he floated the concept of living an unplugged life by his friend Dave Ng, whom he’d met in his 20s during mandatory national service.

“We were just chitchatting, but Dave started thinking about it seriously,” Chia, now 43, told Business Insider. Ng came up with the idea of creating a tiny house on wheels — a mobile house that could be easily relocated if a particular location did not attract guests.

In 2017, the pair decided to sell their businesses — Chia had been working in IT and Ng in waste management — and start a tiny house businesscalled Big Tiny. They invested 100,000 Singapore dollars, or around $77k, each, and dove into …