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About Me

Hey there, I'm An Phan. I come from a poor village in Vietnam where people struggle with money, happiness, and security.

Three things fire me up: decentralization, building wealth, and the internet economy.

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

My goals are to:

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

Experience

  • Magic Magnet: Created an extension to automate marketing for one-person businesses, powered by AI.
  • Co-Founded Sunseeder : A Vietnamese ed-tech platform teaching crucial skills that 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 that software is magic. I closed Pepper to pursue a software engineering career.
  • Successfully ran Pepper: a fast food restaurant in Da Nang City with my best friends to recover financially after the failed Bamboo project. It helped me learn many valuable business lessons.
  • Bamboo: An initiative that aimed to be Da Nang's recycling hub, but we underestimated the funding and scaling requirements. It ultimately failed.
  • Traveled across Vietnam by bicycle, experiencing life without permanent shelter.
  • Dropped out of university despite being a top-10 student. I saw no promising future in the architecture industry and found it boring, with many people having huge egos. I am forever grateful to a teacher who directed me to books and the Sai Gon city library for self-study. That moment changed my life.
  • Studied architecture at Van Lang University.
  • Was an average student in high school.