From the “nerd” student to the boss TikTok: The first stumble in his life and destiny arranged by repairing the computer to find a wife

Coming from a technical boy, in the young years, Truong Nhat Minh has many experiences of establishing a career and experiencing many successes and failures. He previously held the position of Chairman of the Technical Council of Kuxun – the owner of a famous travel website under TripAdvisor, CEO of 99fang.com – China’s largest real estate search website. .

Start-up failed

Truong Nhat Minh was born in 1983 in Long Nham – a small town in Fujian province, China. His father used to be an employee of the Municipal Science and Technology Committee before opening an electronics factory in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, and his mother was a nurse. When Truong Nhat Minh was a child, his parents did not strictly supervise the children like other families, but provided him with a very free and comfortable living environment, thus helping him to form a personality of self-control. and decide on your own future.

In 2001, Truong Nhat Minh passed the entrance exam for Microelectronics majoring at Nam Khai University – University under the Ministry of Education of China in Tianjin city. However, not finding interest and having to experience the feelings of failure during the experiment made him decide to move to Software Engineering.

Right from the time he went to school, because he did not accept a peaceful life, Truong Nhat Minh found a job by himself. He helps his friends build computers, get outside projects, develop software for his father’s company. Each month, Truong Nhat Minh can earn 2-3,000 yuan (equivalent to 6.8-10.3 million).

By 2005, he graduated from Nam Khai University with major in Software Engineering. Also in this year, Truong Nhat Minh decided to go to Beijing to set up a career with some of his brothers who are also students at Nanhai University. Young men study office software together and fail not long after.

Career journey

After a first failure, in February 2006, Truong Nhat Minh joined Kuxun – the owner of a famous travel website under TripAdvisor, and became the company’s first programmer. On the first day of joining the company, Truong Nhat Minh submitted a draft code. 1 year later, he became the General Technical Manager of the company, managing a staff of more than 40 people and still kept the habit of working hard until 2-3am.

To learn how to manage the company, in 2008, Truong Nhat Minh resigned from Kuxun and moved to work for Microsoft. However, he could not be used to working here, except for reading a lot of books, this job did not give him any achievement. Therefore, just half a year later, Truong Nhat Minh accepted an invitation to work for Fanfou – the website was dubbed the Chinese version of Twitter.

At Fanfou, Truong Nhat Minh has carefully researched thousands of top websites in the world, based on reports of prestigious rankings. From there, he also made his own judgment and began to formulate some drafts for his own website.

During 3 years at Fanfou, Truong Nhat Minh actively interacted with his seniors and gradually learned how to manage from “big-faced” characters such as Tran Hoa – Founder of Changba, or Vuong Hung – CEO of Meituan.

At the end of 2011, Truong Nhat Minh left Fanfou, and a month later responded to the invitation to become the CEO of 99fang.com – China’s largest real estate search website. The work here has helped him to cultivate more about leadership skills and how to operate the company. In March 2012, Truong Nhat Minh shared that when he first arrived at 99fang, he felt full of confidence every now and then, when he felt uneasy, but fortunately he later learned how to do it. adjust and control emotions.

In 2011, while walking on the street, Truong Nhat Minh recognized the evolution in the user’s access to information, the era of reading news on the computer was gradually being replaced by smart phones. . He knew now was the time to start the career that he had cherished for so long. Later that year, after finding a successor to his position, Truong Nhat Minh decided to resign at 99fang and set up his own company.

In early 2012, he founded ByteDance, a Chinese multinational Internet technology company headquartered in Beijing. ByteDance’s core product is Toutiao – a content platform located in China and around the world. Besides, ByteDance is also the developer of the video-sharing social network service TikTok. As of May 2020, ByteDance is reported to be worth more than $ 100 billion.

Technical guy with a romantic soul

When applying for university exam aspirations, Truong Nhat Minh envisioned student life in the coming years and set 4 requirements for the school he will attend in the future: First, it must be A comprehensive school, ensuring a balanced ratio of men and women, so it will be convenient to find a girlfriend. Second, the school must be close to the sea to regularly eat seafood. Third, the school must be away from home in order to live away from parents. And finally, the school must be in a place where it snows in winter.

From these aspirations, it can be seen that, although studying engineering, Truong Nhat Minh is not at all dry at all, even somewhat romantic and dreamy. After careful research, Truong Nhat Minh decided to choose Nam Khai University, and of course, Nam Khai University also chose him.

Truong Nhat Minh is passionate about research and development of computer software. He is very hard-working “close the dollar” in the BBS (Bulletin Board System – The bulletin board system / bulletin board system is a server running software allowing users to connect to the system by terminal program, or a computer running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of common interest). Because of his outstanding talent, Truong Nhat Minh has become famous throughout the school’s BBS, his technique is so good that everyone in the industry knows.

Awarding himself the title “Ethical Poinsettia”, Truong Nhat Minh has never fallen into the evils of the youth of his time. He did not play games, did not play cards, nor did he enjoy watching tapes and discs like his peers. During university, Truong Nhat Minh had only 3 main things: writing code, reading books and repairing computers.

Thanks to the computer repair that found the perfect puzzle

The life of friends with books and various types of code has made Truong Nhat Minh feel extremely interested in computer repair. And it was through this work that he met the love of his life – the woman who later became the Lady Truong.

When asked about the time he spent in college all day just burying his head in code, how to maintain relationships as well as communicate with the outside world, Truong Nhat Minh revealed that it was thanks to on computer repair and web programming. He happily said: “Computer repair has helped me reap great results in life, it is my girlfriend at that time, and also my wife now.”

Although Truong Nhat Minh does not share much about his half, it can be seen that his student life is going as he wishes. And the way Truong Nhat Minh talks about his wife makes people immediately think of the colorful details of romanticism in old idol dramas.

Future ahead

Truong Nhat Minh believes that everything has no limit, no time, the most important thing is to know how to run forward. Perhaps that is why he is constantly making a career, even if he has to face one difficulty after another. And also thanks to those relentless efforts, this “nerd” student this year has become the boss of the extremely popular social networking platform and has won the hearts of users in the potential billion-pop market. .

On February 26, 2019, Truong Nhat Minh was in the Top 100 richest billionaires of Ho Nhuan magazine (Ho Nhuan Bach Phu – Hurun Report is a famous magazine in China that specializes in monitoring structural changes of since being “aired” since 1999, this is considered the most reliable and influential ranking in Mainland China). According to this chart, his fortune was up to 95 billion yuan, 3 times higher than the previous year.

Not knowing that at the present time, Truong Nhat Minh still likes the wide ocean and snow like that year, it is not clear what success he will continue to achieve in the future, but surely the story TikTok boss who is about to write more will always be colorful and make people eagerly await.

Source: General