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🇻🇳 Emerging Markets Trailblazer Rich Pham: Always say yes.

4 July 2025, with Joël Kaczmarek and Rich Pham

Summary

This episode is in German.

Rich Pham talks with Joel Kaczmarek about a path that led from Vietnam to the United States and on through several Asian countries. The Wisdom Wednesday episode traces stations at Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson and an entrepreneurial run that included selling Pocari Sweat for 200 million dollars. Pham sets out the five lessons he would pass to his younger self: always say yes, be dependable, implementation is everything, be memorable at work, and learn how to pivot.

Score cards

  • 90%
    Practical value
  • 40%
    Level of depth
  • 100%
    Timelessness

What you’ll learn

  • 1) Always say yes.
  • 2) Be dependable.
  • 3) Implementation is everything.
  • 4) It's really important to be rememberable at work.
  • 5) Learn how to pivot.

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