Minh Le is founder and chairman of VNG, one of Vietnam's leading tech companies: Zalo with close to 80 million users, gaming, ZaloPay, and a growing AI and cloud business. He started it as a gaming café with friends in 2004.
Minh Le is founder and chairman of VNG, one of Vietnam's leading tech companies: Zalo with close to 80 million users, gaming, ZaloPay, and a growing AI and cloud business. He started it as a gaming café with friends in 2004.
We talk about the decision that brought him back to Vietnam, the founding of VNG, luck, making bets, and where AI fits into what VNG builds next.
This conversation goes deep into how one of Vietnam's best-known founders actually thinks.
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0:37 Gamer, optimist, builder, people person
5:14 What do you want in life
11:23 Scholarship to Australia, 1997
15:46 The Melbourne office moment
18:42 The Hotmail story
25:16 Founding VNG, the first blockbuster game
29:24 Luck and the prepared mind
37:23 Playing the game vs the game playing you
41:43 Earning the right to make bets
50:31 Love is a verb
53:57 VNG's AI bets
1:02:59 The VNG mission
1:09:43 Heart over analysis
1:14:26 Advice for overseas Vietnamese
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