Kai Risdahl
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Can we go back in the kitchen and just look around?
Half a dozen people slicing meat and vegetables and herbs and making bun meat to go.
Is that what you're doing?
Why are you running this business?
I mean, you're a young guy.
You went to like USC or something, right?
But you decided to come home.
First, though, you went back to Vietnam to work for a couple of years.
It was... American kid of Vietnamese descent going back to Vietnam.
The Vietnam right now is not your parents' Vietnam.
And so that's their memory that they gave you.
And now you went to see it for yourself.
Vietnam today is among the fastest growing economies in the world.
The labor force there is right in that demographic sweet spot.
There are about two working age people for every one dependent.