Kai Rizdahl

Roll with me on this one.

You're a guy originally from Russia, living in the UK, sitting in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, talking to an American radio team about sort of the global economy.

I mean, do you think about that at all?

As we talked about yesterday, the Vietnamese government wants companies like Tiny Fish here.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has set a goal of making Vietnam a leader in AI research.

NVIDIA has an agreement with the government to build an R&D facility here.

There are tax incentives for high-tech enterprises.

There are investments in infrastructure and training programs to nurture young talent like the people Huy is trying to hire.

So we have a relationship with a university here.

So hopefully in the next few years, I hope to see the source from the local talents.

This is so interesting because we were talking to a guy running a printing company earlier.

And he said, in essence, the same thing about his workforce that you are saying about your workforce.

That what you want to do is you want to establish a pipeline so that your workers can grow and so that they can go on and have fundamentally, this was unsaid, but better lives.

Yes.

Yeah, I think I have a similar take as him too.

So the thing is that to have the raw talent, something organic growth from the cities is something that we want to be in the long term because that will ensure both the quality as well as that we contribute back to the country and the city.

We started this series with the idea that having a large population of working-age people can make your country richer.

That's what happened in the United States and Europe in the last century.

And now, it's happening in Vietnam.

Nila and I made one more stop in Ho Chi Minh City.