Mentors

More than 20 years of start-up experience in Silicon Valley makes Binh Tran, the co-founder and CEO of 500 Startups Vietnam, can feel the passion of Vietnamese start-ups with the unicorn dreams.

"It has never been a better time to do start-ups in Vietnam, with so much support and funding which have a good impact on its environment along with the competitive advantages of the fast-growing market, talents, and government's support"

"Reaching the final is the success of any team, whether or not they win a prize. For the start-up, the most important thing is having the opportunity to talk about their products, especially in front of potential investors".

"VND Cloud has successfully built the cloud computing technology for hundreds of millions of users that Vietnamese engineers owned and implemented. We want to bring these technologies to serve businesses with their digital transformation progress in Vietnam."

Viettel Advanced Solutions track 2019 creates a premise to expand not only in the markets that Viettel invests but will become an annual program to search for ideas, products and talents of startups around the world.

He started his first business at the age of 16. His first three weeks of sales financed his freshman year at New York University.