Giving up a thousand-dollar salary, a woman in her 30s successfully started her own business.

Despite working as high-paid managers in foreign companies, Pham Anh Cuong - the owner of the Kamibana project - and Hang Ba Tri - CEO of Go-ixe - still gave it up to start their own companies.

Director quits high-paying job to make paper flower art.

Before starting his business with kamibana paper flowers, Pham Anh Cuong was the director of a construction company with a salary of no less than $2,000 per month.

The entrepreneur, born in the 1980s, shared: "Constant business trips and a dream salary don't satisfy me because my passion for paper flower art, which I developed while studying in Japan, still smolders."

Ignoring all the advice from family and friends, Cuong made the decision to quit his job after much deliberation to build his own company with an initial capital of less than 1.5 billion VND.

Pham Anh Cuong quit his high-paying job to create paper flower art.

After nearly two years of dedicating himself wholeheartedly, the young CEO, born in the 1980s, has proven his capabilities as his company has entered a stable phase with estimated revenue of around 60 billion VND this year. Currently, his products are accepted by several supermarket chains in Vietnam and are beginning to penetrate the Japanese market, fulfilling his initial dream.

In addition to income from selling paper flowers, Cuong also opened vocational training classes and handmade clubs to increase the company's revenue, while simultaneously creating a workforce and utilizing the quality products of his students to supply the market. He aspires to build the project into an agricultural ecosystem based on a sharing economy model, connecting various groups such as flower farmers, agricultural research institutes, supermarkets, and consumers, enabling them to cooperate with each other.

The CEO, born in the 1980s, expects the agricultural ecosystem project to have approximately 250,000 successful transactions through the website and mobile application by 2018. He anticipates attracting 10,000 farmers nationwide to register as members and continue investing in new areas such as fruits and barley. He also openly expresses his ambition to take the company public within two years and achieve average annual revenue of 180 billion VND.

He quit his managerial position at a Japanese company to build a ride-hailing app for Vietnamese people.

After graduating from university with a degree in Information Technology, Hang Ba Tri was hired by a Japanese company. He was quickly appointed to the product development department with a very high salary.

Despite having a promising career ahead of him, in early 2016, this man born in the 1980s decided to quit his job to pursue a startup project he had been nurturing since his student days. With the desire to support domestic transportation businesses and create a ride-hailing app for Vietnamese people, Hang Ba Tri founded the Go-ixe software.

According to Tri, the emergence of Uber and Grab has gradually taken over the transportation market, becoming an obstacle for traditional taxis due to their competitive pricing. Users often choose Uber and Grab instead of taxis as they did before. That's why he wants to create a ride-hailing app for Vietnamese people, supporting domestic transportation businesses against the influx of foreign companies.

Hang Ba Tri - CEO of Go-ixe Technology Joint Stock Company.

The Go-ixe app provides a complete solution to help taxi companies, self-drive car rental companies, and transportation businesses use the Go-ixe system without having to build their own applications.

Go-ixe offers various services such as: Go-bike (motorcycle taxi); Go-taxi (taxi); Go-car (car); Go-travel (tourist vehicle, carpooling); and Go-share (self-drive car rental). Simply by installing this application on Android, users can order any type of transportation service. Initially, Go-bike, Go-taxi, and Go-car operated similarly to Uber or Grab.

Within six months, Go-ixe connected 10,000 participants to its system, with over 500 vehicles and a monthly user growth rate of over 30%.

According to Hung Thinh/VNE