The door opened, and a few people in a corner of the restaurant recognized T\u1ea1 Minh Tu\u1ea5n. Within seconds, men around 40 turned their attention entirely toward him, each greeting him, \u201cHello, Teacher!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The young teacher approached and high-fived each student. The hot, quiet midday restaurant suddenly became lively. Tu\u1ea5n moved to another corner for a private meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game changer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The entrepreneur students returned to their meeting. But the wave of energy had already spread. Every subtle movement in this space seemed to carry a different rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had heard of Tu\u1ea5n for a long time, but only in those brief first moments did I witness the activating energy of this young man known as the \u2018inspiration superhero.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA young man starting a business for reasons other than circumstance\u201d is Tu\u1ea5n's self-deprecating description of his decision, once considered\u2026 \u201ca little crazy,\u201d when he had just entered university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his first startup at 19, while a second-year Industrial Systems Engineering student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Tu\u1ea5n co-founded one of Vietnam's earliest digital marketing service companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the rationale \u2018do it to learn,\u2019 Tu\u1ea5n and the founding team plunged into market research, fundraising, recruitment, and finding customers. Like an \u2018alien object\u2019 in Saigon's marketing world at the time, the business went from having no customers for its first three months to becoming a communications partner for major brands such as Samsung Vietnam, Sony Vietnam, and Unilever Vietnam\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Tu\u1ea5n\u2019s student years also began to become\u2026 \u2018unlike anyone else\u2019s.\u2019 There was a period when he hardly attended classes and had no time to prepare for exams. At night, when there was no one left to\u2026 work with, he began reading and teaching himself the material he had missed in class, both to maintain his knowledge and to\u2026 apply it to his startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Working flat out twenty hours a day, during some exam seasons simply \u201cshowing up for the exam at the right time and in the right room\u201d was already a\u2026 major effort. Even so, in his specialist subjects, Tu\u1ea5n almost always ranked among the highest scorers in the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Tu\u1ea5n grew accustomed to seeing himself as \u201cunlike anyone else,\u201d he nurtured other \u201cunconventional\u201d ideas. He founded Help International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that time, family doctors were still an image seen only in foreign films, while in Vietnam people were spending enormous sums on treatment rather than prevention. He entered education with the YUP Entrepreneurship Academy when \u201cstartup\u201d was still a newly discussed concept in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He established the Dream of Angel Feet fund \u2013 a charity supporting people with disabilities who have a passion for literature and the arts, at a time when dreams beyond making ends meet are still considered a luxury for people with disabilities. Then he founded Vietnam Leaders Toastmasters, bringing the spirit of the world\u2019s largest public speaking association (Toastmasters International) to Vietnam\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting at 19, at 23 he was recognized by the British Council, CSIP and the World Bank as one of Vietnam's 15 outstanding social entrepreneurs. At 27, Forbes named him among Vietnam's 30 most successful and influential young people. At 28, he made the list across all of Asia\u2014each turning point marking another occasion when Tu\u1ea5n entered and changed Discover yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But \u2018every milestone is only one chapter of life.\u2019 For Tu\u1ea5n, achievement is not necessarily the brands attached to his name when people mention T\u1ea1 Minh Tu\u1ea5n, but those moments of looking back at himself in astonishment after passing through all the struggles and confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When founding Help, Tu\u1ea5n carried a powerful drive after cancer suddenly struck his father. At the time, he was working relentlessly toward his university degree while struggling with the digital marketing company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A family crisis shook everything. His father\u2019s illness was painful, but the helplessness when the bad news struck tormented Tu\u1ea5n many times more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thinking of other families with seriously ill loved ones, Tu\u1ea5n realized that the pain of illness always strikes suddenly, because disease develops silently amid Vietnamese people's indifference to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The family doctor model emerged from there. Tu\u1ea5n began researching, planning, and committing himself to organizing a team of doctors who would make home visits, monitor, and manage people's health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But when entering and opening up an uncharted land, the pioneer also crosses and tears through their own limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some afternoons, riding his motorbike from school to District 1 to meet investors, Tu\u1ea5n had to park several turns away and walk to the appointment. Reaching the address, he looked up at the city's tall building, then down at himself: a student dreaming of \u201cchange,\u201d rushing back and forth to meet, persuade, and hear rejection from over twenty investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tu\u1ea5n suddenly thought, \u201cWhat am I doing here?\u201d The prospect of carrying a stack of papers into a luxurious, unfamiliar office and telling his dream to an unfamiliar senior entrepreneur, having that \u201cdream assessed\u201d for the nth time, left him exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The thought of fleeing flashed through his mind. He hesitated, then pulled himself together and walked inside. After that meeting, he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding, the first confirmation of the project\u2019s viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One afternoon during those days faded by road dust, his body gaunt from staying up nights nurturing his \u201cchild,\u201d Tu\u1ea5n received a notice from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health ordering the project to stop, because\u2026 Vietnam had not yet finalized its family doctor legislation at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Frantically contacting everyone, Tu\u1ea5n received only one answer: stop the project! At the time, everything was progressing, every colleague was ready and enthusiastic, and organization, expertise, and finances were all in place. The project itself had no problems, except having to\u2026 stop implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an emergency meeting amid a crisis, facing a deeply bewildered team, Tu\u1ea5n offered only this reassurance: \u201cWe'll find a way!\u201d After leaving the meeting room, having high-fived and lifted their spirits, he cried like a child all the way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thinking of his father, his dedication in the early days, the painstaking care for the service, and this cruel challenge, he felt helpless. Arriving at the gate, Tu\u1ea5n threw away his mask soaked with tears, restored a cheerful expression, and entered the house. He was only 22 then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The venture never stopped presenting challenges. Born with and nurturing an ambition to improve Vietnamese people's healthcare, Tu\u1ea5n defined his ideal of building Help International as a social enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later, when Help International was operating steadily as a general internal medicine clinic with a \u2018personal doctor\u2019 service for patients who needed it, Tu\u1ea5n again clashed with the investor over the company\u2019s development goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conflict escalated as more misunderstandings arose. At a meeting, one of the company's most respected investors angrily pointed straight at the \u201cfounder\u201d: \u201cTu\u1ea5n, if you don't change, starting tomorrow you are not to set foot in this company again!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That possibility was real. If their ideals could not be reconciled, the investors could indeed fire Tu\u1ea5n, even though he was Help's founder and operator. Faced with that make-or-break moment, Tu\u1ea5n fell silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meeting ended. Fortunately, during that crisis, 99% of company staff sided with Tu\u1ea5n. He began resolving the financial issues and \u201cparting ways\u201d with the investor who did not share his ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recalling that painful memory, Tu\u1ea5n shared: \u2018I also bear responsibility for choosing an investor focused on recovering capital quickly and maximizing profit, while the project\u2019s vision required great patience.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe more experience people gain in this game, the more they understand that they must take 100% responsibility for their lives!\u201d Tu\u1ea5n confided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But on that fragile tightrope of gains and losses in business, only one thing retains its value: a pioneer\u2019s spirit of commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2013, Tu\u1ea5n was twice invited by the National Assembly's Committee on Social Affairs (under the Ministry of Health) to attend a conference on community healthcare in Vietnam as a family healthcare practitioner. A young man trained in engineering with no medical expertise, Tu\u1ea5n stood at the conference for the first time, presenting his dedication and vision for the family doctor model to experts and senior healthcare officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the conference, a few officials patted Tu\u1ea5n on the shoulder enthusiastically: \u201cWell done! Go ahead\u2014I'll support you wholeheartedly!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After many years struggling to maintain and nurture the project, this was the recognition that surprised and moved Tu\u1ea5n most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only a short time later, at the end of 2014, the National Assembly passed a law on family healthcare. Tu\u1ea5n's proposal to include family doctors in health insurance services to serve the poor also gradually began to be applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n T\u1ea1 Minh Tu\u1ea5n had by then become a prominent name in the business and youth communities through YUP Entrepreneurship Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opposite me, the entrepreneur suddenly became a dreamy, playful university student as he spoke about J.O.B. \u2014 a book-lending project whose Vietnamese name means \u201cJourney of Book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a month-long entrepreneurship course in Israel\u2014the Jewish nation renowned for startups\u2014Tu\u1ea5n visited the founding father's home and was amazed by long shelves holding more than twenty thousand books. He learned that one of Israel's founding father's final wishes remained unfulfilled: turning his home into a library where people could read for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Returning to Vietnam, Tu\u1ea5n began planning a free library where Vietnamese people could contribute books or easily enter the world of knowledge by borrowing them for free. Another adventure in knowledge begins\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C\u1eeda m\u1edf, \u1edf m\u1ed9t g\u00f3c nh\u00e0 h\u00e0ng c\u00f3 v\u00e0i ng\u01b0\u1eddi nh\u1eadn ra T\u1ea1 Minh Tu\u1ea5n. R\u1ed3i ch\u1ec9 v\u00e0i gi\u00e2y, nh\u1eefng ng\u01b0\u1eddi \u0111\u00e0n \u00f4ng tr\u00ean d\u01b0\u1edbi 40 tu\u1ed5i chuy\u1ec3n h\u1eb3n \u00e1nh m\u1eaft v\u1ec1 ph\u00eda anh, thay nhau \u201cCh\u00e0o th\u1ea7y!\u201d. Ng\u01b0\u1eddi th\u1ea7y tr\u1ebb b\u01b0\u1edbc l\u1ea1i, \u0111\u1eadp tay \u201chigh-five\u201d v\u1edbi t\u1eebng h\u1ecdc tr\u00f2. Bu\u1ed5i tr\u01b0a oi \u1ea3, im […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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