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Early to AI and Adapting to Change

ELSA founder Vu Van reveals how she built a global English-learning AI platform serving 60 million users—starting years before ChatGPT existed. She shares the brutal early days of building everything from scratch: recruiting ASR researchers from Portugal, training custom speech recognition models on accented English, and even having her husband record voice lessons to save money. Vu explains the painful but necessary transition from "build everything" to strategically using APIs, managing AI scientists who resisted change, and the ongoing "buy vs build" decisions that define modern AI companies. From launching as a consumer app to expanding into B2B with measurable ROI for call centers and corporate training, she breaks down the complexities of scaling across six global offices while maintaining company culture.