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Hey, I'm Khoi, co-founder of BAG. I wrote this after spending 3 years building Fanhouse, a VC-backed creator business that we wound down through a small asset sale. In the jungles of Vietnam, in the hamlets with dirt roads, along the brown veins through the rice paddies, they race. They race with all of their heart. Sweat beading on the forehead. Effort. Exertion. Focus. Focused on winning the bike race. And I laugh because they’re going so slowly! 1 inch every second. They don’t have race tracks out here. No velodrome. No Tour de France, though France did several tours here. So the kids in the jungle have 30 foot bike races and see who can finish–not first, but last. Of course, if you lose balance and fall off, you’re disqualified. That’s the hard part. You can’t just hang out and loiter. You can bike side to side, swerving back and forth across everyone else’s path, but if you run into someone, you’ll probably both fall off. So the best strategy is to stay focused on staying as balan

Based Apps and Games BAG Vietnamese Bike Racing BAG cofounder Khoi shares a personal take on the meaning of winning Fri Nov 10 2023 Hey, I'm Khoi, co-founder of BAG. I wrote this after spending 3 years building Fanhouse, a VC-backed creator business that we wound down through a small asset sale. In the jungles of Vietnam, in the hamlets with dirt roads, along the brown veins through the rice paddies, they race. They race with all of their heart. Sweat beading on the forehead. Effort. Exertion. Focus. Focused on winning the bike race. And I laugh because they’re going so slowly! 1 inch every se

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