What Stanford Didn’t Teach Me: Rebuilding Vietnam’s Hottest EdTech | AIducation
He brought cutting-edge AI from Stanford to Vietnam — and flopped. But after just 3 months of rebuilding, he's now leading one of Vietnam’s most exciting edtechs, with 40,000 users and entering 23,000 schools.
In this episode, we sit down with Hung Bui, Stanford grad and founder of Aiducation, Vietnam’s first AI-powered personalized learning platform. He opens up about the brutal startup flop that forced him to rethink everything from product assumptions to go-to-market strategy and how he rebuilt smarter, scrappier, and student-first.
We talk about common technical founder pitfalls, how to test product-market fit fast, and why you should never be ashamed of your early product.
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
03:00 – What AIducation Really Does (And Why It Works)
06:00 – The Pivot: From AI Chat Buddies to Real Student Pain
09:00 – Testing for Real Product-Market Fit
12:00 – A Brutal Year in the Field and Throwing It All Away
15:00 – Building Around Trust: Parents, Teachers, Students
18:00 – Why EdTech Needs Local Context & Nuance
21:00 – Building Startup Culture
22:30 – Would you Rather
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