Chew was born on 1 January 1983 in Singapore.[4] His father worked in construction while his mother was a bookkeeper.[5]
Upon his graduation from Hwa Chong Institution,[5] Chew went on to serve National Service in which he was a commissioned officer in the Singapore Army.[5] After his military service, Chew went on to study at University College London,[6] where he graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Economics degree.[7] In 2010 he completed a Master of Business Administration degree at Harvard Business School,[4] and while there completed a summer internship at Facebook.[8]
