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- 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.…
