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- 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…
- 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…
