About

Hey friend! Feel free to reach me via:
X: @vinniwei
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vincent-wei/
Hi π, I'm Vincent.
I've spent the last decade building companies from zero to eight figures. Helped grow VEED from 0 to 100M users. Worked with early founding teams at Canva. Had one company IPO, another profitable exit, plenty of failures along the way.
But here's what I'm most proud of: I've personally taught over 3,000 kids aged 8-18. Started one of Australia's first coding schools for kids at 21 and made it profitable when everyone thought I was crazy.
I was born in Taiwan and migrated to Sydney, Australia with my mum and sister when I was 12. These days I'm living in Asia and travel for work to Europe, the US, and Australia.
If money didn't matter, I'd want to build a scalable way to teach and educate people around the world. I believe talent is equally distributed, but opportunities are not.
I'm working toward this by:
- Reskilling people in developing nations to increase their earning potential
- Helping kids discover what they truly love and make a living doing it
I love connecting with like-minded people. Say hi on X @vinniwei π.
I break down complex business insights, investment thoughts, and life lessons into simple languageβlike we're grabbing coffee and I'm sharing what's actually working (and what's not).
Every few weeks (no strict schedule, because life), I sit down and share what I'm actually learning while building companies, plus updates on what I'm doing, reading, working on, and thinking about.
Everything I write about comes from areas where I've spent thousands of hours reading, learning from best-in-class mentors, and building in the real world.
No fluff, no generic business advice. Just real insights from someone who's failed more times than I've won, but learned something valuable each time.
Things I love writing about:
- Building and scaling businesses
- Investing, economics, and market trends
- Personal updates on what I'm working on and thinking about
- Life lessons, mindset, and spiritual growth
- Health and fitness
I've helped grow companies from 0 to 100M users, worked alongside early Canva executives, and personally taught over 3,000 kids to code and succeed. If I can make complex ideas simple enough for thousands of kids to understand and act on, imagine what I can do for you.
Things I'm working on
- Building - Building different projects, open to exploring new opportunities
- Advisory - Consulting and advising fast-growing startups on growth
- Startmate - Mentoring and investing in Australia's fastest growing startups
Things I've worked on
- VEED - 0-100M annual users and 0-8 fig ARR in under 3 years
- Airtasker - IPOed in 24 months; turn company to profitability
- CodeCreate - 6 fig ARR; profitable at 22
- π» Building projects
- π« Deeply connecting with new culture & people
- π Economics & investing
- π€ Family & Friends
- π Travelling
- π₯ Boxing
- π Reading & learning new things
- π Surfing
- π€Ώ (Free)diving
- π¦π» Teaching (kids and in general)
- βοΈ Writing (obviously!)
"Life is not a dress rehearsal, this is it."
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