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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.
Sep 22
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
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👀 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.
Sep 8
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
🫵 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.
Sep 2
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
June 2025
💔 When a Single Tap Breaks Trust
What a dark pattern on ShopeeFood taught us about product design, heuristics, and trust debt.
Jun 15
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
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🥇 The First Business I Ever Built
Lunch money capitalism, sticker equity, and financial independence at 7 years old.
Jun 15
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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.
Jun 6
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
💌 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 🙏
Jun 5
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
🤦♀️ What got me here won't get me there
Turns out, I’d been scaling a version of me I’d already outgrown.
Jun 2
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
May 2025
💡 How I built Hỏi Phật (Dear Buddha) and what almost broke me in the process
Early signals no one talks about (but you should listen to)
May 23
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
2
💃 No audience, no problem: Stand up a community that actually moves people
For early-stage teams tired of noise, hype, and empty Discords.
May 17
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
🥇 The 10x guide to your early community-led growth hire
The 3 non-negotiables I learned from Ben Lang, former Head of Community at Notion
May 9
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
1
March 2025
🌱 How Google Developers' communities were built locally from scratch
How local Google Developers' communities usually start and scale—through events and beyond.
Mar 17
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Hien Nguyen (Sailee Ivic)
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