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- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
