He Went From Novice to Billionaire With Bet on Vietnam Steel
- The inexperienced Long moved into steel industry in 1990s
- His firm, Hoa Phat, has pushed his fortune to $1.9 billion
This article is for subscribers only.
Tran Dinh Long had no experience in steel when he decided to gatecrash the industry back in the mid-1990s, betting Vietnam was going to need a lot more of it as the country developed.
“All I had was passion and a lack of fear,” the founder and chairman of Hoa Phat Group recalled.