Gourd Duc and billionaires at the age of 20: People who fail college, drop out of school start from nothing

20 is a young age, full of enthusiasm, full of plastic but also full of worries.

At that age, Vietnamese entrepreneurs and billionaires had turning points when choosing their own path to success.

Mr.Duc

Doan Nguyen Duc (elect Duc) was born in 1962 in Binh Dinh province. Coming from a family with no conditions, elected Duc is very resourceful and used to do all kinds of hard work.

In 1982, when he was just 20 years old, after graduating from high school, Duc elected to go to Ho Chi Minh City to take the university exam but failed. Despite continuing to practice and burying my head in books, in the end, I still didn't pass the exam for the 4th time.

Temporarily giving up the path of education, at the age of 22, elected Duc chose to start a business. "The path of education does not smile at you, you should choose another path. All rivers lead to the great sea, all roads are divided into separate paths" - Mr. Duc shared.

After a period of running a carpentry workshop, Mr. Duc has accumulated from a hired job and opened a small workshop specializing in making furniture for students in the commune. After that, he continued to expand his business into manufacturing furniture and many other fields.

In 1993, Mr. Doan Nguyen Duc opened the private enterprise Hoang Anh Pleiku. In 2006, this establishment officially changed its name to Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company, doing multi-industry business with many different fields such as: mining, timber, rubber, hydropower, real estate and soccer business. stone.

In 2008, Hoang Anh Gia Lai started listing securities on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE). In November 2010, the total market capitalization of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group reached VND 22,524.09 billion.

Not only famous in the world of real estate and agriculture, elected Duc is also a silent "hero" of the Vietnamese football team. He is the founder of HAGL Arsenal JMG Academy - Vietnam's first football training school with the desire to bring the Vietnamese football team to world fame.

During many years of leading U23 to reap resounding successes. The most memorable memory is definitely the Asian runner-up title and 4th place in ASIAD 18.

Dang Le Nguyen Vu

Dang Le Nguyen Vu was born on February 10, 1971 in a poor farmer family in Ninh Hoa district, Khanh Hoa province. The childhood of the "coffee king" is associated with a 15km trail from home to school, with corn fields and pigs.

Although his family background was difficult, he was a student with the most achievements. In 1990, he passed the entrance exam to the Central Highlands Medical University. In order to have m.oney to send his children to the city to study, his mother had to sell many kilograms of rice and many other things in the house.

However, when he was in his third year, Dang Le Nguyen Vu decided to drop out when he suddenly realized that he did not want to become a doctor. Born and raised with famous and delicious coffee beans, the people who make coffee beans like his parents never ceased to suffer. He pondered forever and found the crux of the problem: If you want to be rich, you can only follow the path of coffee processing.

In 1996, with the initial cooperation of 3 friends, he established "Trung Nguyen Coffee Company", then just a roasting facility with an area of a few square meters and an old manual coffee roasting machine. , a small coffee shop in Buon Ma Thuot and the job of delivering roasted coffee to other shops.

1998 can be considered a milestone in Dang Le Nguyen Vu's career, when he successfully led Trung Nguyen Nam. This is the first coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City to pursue the franchise coffee business model.

2003 was a golden milestone in Dang Le Nguyen Vu's career, when the G7 coffee brand was born. This is a new development step of Trung Nguyen coffee, helping to consolidate and improve its market share in the Vietnamese coffee market.

Mr. Vu once shared: "No one in my family has baldness or hair loss, but I don't have many hairs left. I have paid the price for the desires that always burn me. Every morning when I look in the mirror, I meet them. his "pay the price": one day his hair fell into a fist when combing or stroking his hair ...".

In August 2012, he was honored by Forbes magazine - a prestigious American newspaper as Vietnam's Coffee King. Later, this became the title whenever it was mentioned by the press and the public. Not only that, he was also awarded many valuable and important awards such as the Third Class Labor Medal, the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit... for his great contributions.

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