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1Today we have our first ever husband and wife duos on the show, Sonny Vu and Christy Trang Le from Arevo. Arevo develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing parts for end-use applications in high volume. It makes advances in materials science, 3D printing software, and robotics to automate the production of carbon fiber reinforced polymer structures, otherwise known as CFRP.
Sonny is a serial entrepreneur, currently the CEO of Arevo. Previously, Sonny founded various startups including Misfit which was bought by Fossil for $260 million. Before that, he worked at Microsoft Research NLP, under Kai-Fu Lee, and worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics at MIT under Professor Noam Chomsky. Both Arevo and Misfit are GGV portfolio. Christy is the CFO and president of the Vietnam operations for Arevo. Previously, Christy was a country director for Vietnam at Facebook, and before Facebook, she built Misfit along with Sonny. Prior to Misfit, Christy was a consultant at McKinsey and an investment banker at HSBC. She graduated Double First in Economics at Oxford (BA & MPhil) and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
This episode is co-hosted by GGV Colleague Dimitra Taslim.
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1. 两位嘉宾是夫妻，第一个问题是问他们怎么认识的。可能不小心就磕了CP。两个人第一次约会聊的是语言学。（男主角当时在MIT跟着Noam Chomsky读博士）
2. Arevo是3D打印技术公司，为了证明技术有多强，生产了一款碳纤维单车Superstrata，值得所有单车迷拥有(已经卖完了）。“顺势”和“造势”这两种公司，Arevo属于“造势”类。
3. 写提纲的时候采访了他们的员工，员工说两位老板出差会让员工做公务舱，他们自己做经济舱。对servant leadership的执着有点可爱。