About

Hey there, I'm An Phan. I come from a poor village in Vietnam where folks struggle with money, happiness, and security. Three things fire me up: decentralization, growing wealth, and the internet economy.

I'm a mix of all three: a software engineer out to tackle financial issues by building helpful apps, teaching at the Sunseeder Project, and creating online communities.

My goal?

Help people build wealth
Teach crucial skills schools don't cover
Make Bitcoin and Lightning Network more practical in developing countries

Experience

Magic Magnet: an extension to automate marketing for one-person businesses, powered by AI.
Co-Founded Sunseeder : a Vietnam ed-tech platform teaching crucial skills schools don't cover.
Created Ham Hoc Hoi Community.
Started Giau Cham, Nghi Huu Nhanh Community.
Fell in love with the POS system at Pepper, realizing software is magic. Closed Pepper to pursue a software engineering career.
Successfully ran Pepper: a fast food restaurant in Da Nang City with my best buds to recover financially after the failed Bamboo project. It helped me learn a lot of business lessons.
Bamboo: aimed to be Da Nang's recycling hub, but underestimated funding and scaling. It flopped.
Traveled Vietnam by bicycle, living like a homeless person.
Dropped out of university, despite being a top 10 student. Saw no revolution in architecture industry's future. Found it boring, and the people had huge egos. Forever grateful to a teacher who pointed me to books and the Sai Gon city library for self-study. That moment changed my life.
Studied architecture at Van Lang University.
An average student in high school.