Linh Pham left a career at Goldman Sachs in London to return to Vietnam and build LOGIVAN, a trucking marketplace often called the “Uber for Trucks.” Her company has raised over $8 million USD and connects more than 20,000 truck drivers and companies nationwide.

We discuss Linh’s journey from Cambridge to Saigon, what she learned building in Vietnam’s opaque logistics market, and how she’s now combining logistics and AI with her new startup, FreightPilot.AI.

Linh Pham is the Founder and CEO of LOGIVAN and FreightPilot.AI, two technology ventures transforming Vietnam’s logistics and supply chain. A Cambridge graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst, Linh returned home to build where few dared — in Vietnam’s most traditional and challenging industry.

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We discuss:

02:00 Why she left Goldman Sachs for Vietnam
05:00 Family business vs. forging her own path
07:20 Moving back home: fear, motivation, and opportunity
10:40 Discovering her passion for entrepreneurship
15:00 Finding the idea for LOGIVAN and validating logistics
19:00 Why logistics is a massive but broken market in Vietnam
21:00 The hard truths about building a startup here
24:00 Navigating Vietnam’s “gray zone” business culture
26:00 Relationships, trust, and doing business the Vietnamese way
31:00 Gender, age, and establishing authority as a young female founder
36:00 Lessons from building and leading teams in Vietnam
41:00 COVID, layoffs, and resilience in tough times
45:00 From LOGIVAN to FreightPilot.AI — the next chapter
49:00 How AI can fix logistics inefficiencies
56:00 Rethinking ambition, success, and the long game
1:00:00 Her vision for Vietnam’s tech and global software exports

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