Vietnam Is Ready for the AI Era
From Overseas Vietnamese by Quang Do
May 13, 2026 · 1h 6m · Episode 23
About this episode
Jim Nguyen discusses his journey as a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur and the potential of AI in Vietnam.
Jim Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American serial entrepreneur and payments infrastructure builder who previously built and sold a company to PayPal, led digital business development at PayPal, started PayPal’s crypto team in 2013, and later helped scale OKCoin globally. Today, he is building Inflow, a new infrastructure layer for AI agents and agentic commerce.
People in this episode
Host: Quang Do
Guest: Jim Nguyen
Topics covered
- AI
- entrepreneurship
- payments infrastructure
- digital business
- Vietnam
Keywords
- AI era
- entrepreneur
- payments
- Inflow
- Vietnam
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: PayPal, OKCoin, Inflow
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