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🚴‍♀️ I Was Playing a Game I Was Guaranteed to Lose. Here's What I Learned
On the tyranny of the Builder archetype, and finding my moat as an Architect.
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
👀 Bootstrap or VC — pick your pace, pick your audience
You’re not “not ready.” You’re deciding who sees it first and how much risk you can handle.
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
🫵 Dear Non-native Founders, Stop Apologizing for Speaking English
If I could tell my younger self one thing, it would be this: stop apologizing for speaking English.
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
💔 When a Single Tap Breaks Trust
What a dark pattern on ShopeeFood taught us about product design, heuristics, and trust debt.
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
🥇 The First Business I Ever Built
Lunch money capitalism, sticker equity, and financial independence at 7 years old.
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
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🎒 Everything you need to know about community-led growth—in action.
Screate Vault: Your go-to resource to help you build things people can’t shut up about.
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
💌 Who this newsletter is really for (and where we go next)
Over 100 of you have joined from around the world — I’m seriously grateful 🙏
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
Front Row by Screate
Front Row by Screate
🪑 Your front-row seat to the making of Screate: raw founder notes, lessons I wish I knew sooner, plus the people & playbooks shaping the future.
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