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- Resolution 23: what Vietnam's new diaspora policy means for overseas Vietnameseby Quang DoIn August, Vietnam rewrote how it works with overseas Vietnamese for the first time since 2004. The five changes, the numbers behind them, what has happened since, and what it means if you are thinking about Vietnam.
- How to test a move to Vietnam before you make itHow long to stay, when to come and who to meet: what overseas Vietnamese who moved learned about testing the move first.
- Inside OV: a job board for Vietnam, a guide to moving there and Coffee ChatsOV Jobs, a new website with a page for every podcast episode, the OV Guide to Moving to Vietnam, Coffee Chats and more.
- How to build a tech giant in Vietnamwith Minh LeMinh Le almost stayed in Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in 1997 on a scholarship to study finance, and in his final year he interned at a securities firm. At a morning meeting he looked…
- Rising With Vietnamby Quang DoWanting Vietnam was never the hard part. Why so many overseas Vietnamese feel the pull and never make the move, and what it would take to change that.
- Vietnam is ready for the AI erawith Jim NguyenJim Nguyen was born in Vietnam shortly before the end of the war and grew up in Silicon Valley, where he started out writing device drivers for graphics chips. During the internet boom he…
- Why Vietnam’s moment is happening nowwith Ton Nu Thi NinhTon Nu Thi Ninh grew up between two countries. Her family left Huế for Paris when she was three, and she spent her early school years living above her parents' Vietnamese restaurant, across…
- What built modern Vietnamwith Bui Kien ThanhBui Kien Thanh was 94 when he sat down for this conversation, and his life runs through most of modern Vietnam's history. Born in a Quảng Nam village in 1931, he studied in France and at…
- How they became content creators in Vietnamwith Will & TinaWill left Vietnam for Germany at seven and built a career in finance, then tech. In 2021 he decided to move back to Vietnam. Tina grew up in Vietnam, finished high school in the US and…
- From starvation to Silicon Valley to Vietnamwith Quoc LuongQuoc Luong grew up in Saigon. His father had worked alongside the US Army before 1975, and later the family's life was turned upside down overnight. As a child he was hungry all the time…
- From Harvard MBA to Vietnamese nail salonswith Truc NguyenTruc Nguyen was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, where her parents ran a company that made baby shoes. When she was 14, right after 8th grade, the family moved to Austin, Texas. Her…
- Hardship as training: lessons on gritwith Vincent VuVincent Vu was born in Vietnam in 1982. When he was seven, his mother took him and his younger brother at night in a small canoe to a fishing boat packed with 165 people. A container ship…
- Vietnam is underrated: building globally from Saigonwith Stephen TurbanStephen Turban is an American who jokes that he is half an OV. He grew up mostly in Missouri, spent part of his childhood in Hong Kong and Singapore, and did an extra year of high school in…
- From Cambridge to Saigon: building Vietnam’s Uber for truckswith Linh PhamLinh Pham grew up in Lạng Sơn, a town near the Chinese border full of logistics companies. At 15 she moved to the UK on a scholarship, then studied natural sciences at Cambridge, where the…
- Building Vietcetera from zerowith Hao TranHao Tran grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in a Vietnamese tech family, with parents from Huế. After Brown University he went into business development in Silicon Valley. In 2015 he was…
- From debt to exit, and back to Vietnamwith Francois Le NguyenFrancois Le Nguyen grew up in Montreal between two sets of values: a tiger-parent home, where his father was a dentist and the bar was set high, and a school where teachers told him…
- Leaving big tech for belonging: creating Podiumwith Mai VoMai Vo was born in Germany to a Vietnamese family. Her father's work took the family to Egypt when she was seven and to Vietnam when she was 12, where she went to an international school.…
- A Viet American entrepreneur building in Saigonwith Tuan LeTuan Le was born in Da Nang and moved to Los Angeles at about ten, joining his mother and brother, who had left Vietnam earlier by boat. He studied business at UC San Diego, disliked his…
- From Harvard and BCG to Vietnam CEOwith Lan DoanLan Doan spent her early childhood in the countryside with her grandparents, moved to Hanoi at seven and left for the US at 18 to study at Colgate University in upstate New York. She chose…
- From Hanoi to big tech in Singaporewith Alice NguyenAlice Nguyen grew up in Hanoi with her grandparents. Her grandfather, a horoscope master, told her from a young age that she had to go abroad to succeed. She flew to the US alone at 17…
- From Viet adoptee to the top of Wall Streetwith Mark EricksonMark Erickson was born in Saigon in 1972, separated from his family during the war and adopted by an American family in 1975. He grew up in a mostly white suburb of Western New York and did…
- From Vietnam to the Ivy League, Goldman and Silicon Valleywith Nhat NguyenNhat Nguyen grew up in central Vietnam and had never left the country when, in her third year at the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, she joined a four-month Work and Travel…
- From Harvard Business School to a Vietnam startupwith Robert HuynhRobert Huynh's parents came to the US as boat people and raised him in Laredo, Texas, a kilometer from the Mexican border, first in a nail salon and later in a chain of frozen yogurt shops.…
