Businessmen Le Thanh Yen

Le Yen Thanh is the founder and co-founder of Talo - a model for applying blockchain technology in exams and recruitment; JobHop - job search application; Umbala - application to create video clips, ... Returning to Vietnam after nearly 4 months of internship at Google (USA), Le Yen Thanh joined a startup company with only a few employees to unleash creativity with 1 solution application. new mind. Leaving Silicon Valley with an internship salary of up to 140 million VND/month, Yen Thanh passed the exams and was invited to Google in Singapore to work with a higher income. However, Le Yen Thanh chose to return to Vietnam to pursue her own technological dream, even though she knew it would be difficult.

BusMap started out as a bus support app for students. But when deciding to start a business from a product, Thanh realized that there were many problems that needed to be solved and thought of expanding the range of users. In March 2019, BusMap joined the local business community with a very small model. One year after operating everything out of pocket, in March 2020, founder of BusMap successfully raised over 1 million USD from a large corporation. The special thing is that this corporation allows him to continue to develop free applications to serve the community with over 20 employees, all of whom are dynamic, creative and enthusiastic young people. In 2013, right after its launch, BusMap reached 50,000 downloads. By 2019, the application has reached 1 million downloads. In 2020, this number is already 2 million downloads with 400,000 users per month. A growth figure that Thanh himself did not expect. At the beginning, the application was only used in Ho Chi Minh City, so far, BusMap has expanded to Hanoi and achieved more than 200,000 downloads and uses, TP. Da Nang and two major cities of Thailand, Bangkok and Chiang Mai, in order to serve Vietnamese people traveling there.