How a Street Vendor's Son Became One of Vietnam's Top Tycoons

  • Nguyen Duc Tai revolutionized country’s mobile phone business
  • Now he’s seeking to change how food is sold in Vietnam
Nguyen Duc TaiPhotographer: Maika Elan/Bloomberg
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When Nguyen Duc Tai, the son of a street vendor, said he was going to revolutionize Vietnam’s mobile phone industry, few people gave it a second thought.

“Everybody laughed at me,” says Tai of that time in 2009.