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The entrepreneurial spirit flew high with Annie Eng when she was a 16-year-old reading the newspaper with her father in Malaysia.

Eng was born and raised in the Southeast Asian country. Her curiosity peaked one day after she read an article about tongkat ali, a flowering plant native to the region that supposedly provided older men a potent combination: anti-aging and sexual prowess.

Now 39, Eng believed a business that could cultivate the power of tongkat ali would be hit.