for $1.8 billion Frank Jao – pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, California, and the Asian Garden Mall Eric Ly – co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking service Bill Nguyen – founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for $850 million and $80 million respectively David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha Chili Sauce Kieu Hoang – pharmaceutical billionaire, CEO of RAAS, Inc (USA) and Vice Chairman of Shanghai RAAS Blood Products, China Literature and journalism Aimee Phan – author of We Should Never Meet Andrew X. Pham – author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (1999) Chau Nguyen – news anchor; first Vietnamese-American to be awarded a regional Emmy Award Đoàn Văn Toại – author of The Vietnamese Gulag Huỳnh Sanh Thông – author known for An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries Jenna Lê – poet and physician; author of "A History of the Cetacean-American Diaspora" Kien Nguyen – author of The Unwanted, a Memoir of Childhood Lan Cao – former attorney and current law professor, author of Monkey Bridge Le Ly Hayslip – author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, which was turned into a motion picture (Heaven & Earth) directed by Oliver Stone Le Thi Diem Thuy – award-winning-author of the novel The Gangster We Are All Looking For Mong-Lan – college professor and author of Song of the Cicadas Monique Truong – author of The Book of Salt Andrew Lam – writer and journalist Author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections On The Vietnamese Diaspora" Nguyễn Chí Thiện – poet and winner of international poetry award in 1985 Nguyen Do – poet, editor and translator; co-author of Black Dog, Black Night Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (2008) and Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai (2010) Nguyen Qui Duc – essayist and radio producer and author of Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family Lê Xuân Nhuận – author of Vietnamese poems; human rights activist; author of Poems by Selected Vietnamese Ocean Vuong – poet and 2016 Whiting Award Winner Quang X. Pham – author; founder of Lathian Systems, a pharmaceutical promotions company Stephanie Trong – Jane executive editor Trinh T. Minh-ha – author, post-colonial scholar, and filmmaker Ut Huynh Cong – photographer; first Vietnamese American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (1973) and the