Cindy Mi
Cindy Mi | |
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| Born | Hebei, China |
| Alma mater | Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) |
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Cindy Mi is a Chinese entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of ABC English and founder of VIPKid.[1]
Biography
Mi was born in the province of ratio
By age 17, she dropped out of high school to co-found tutoring company ABC English with her uncle.[5] During that time she continued to work on her own studies and eventually earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Beijing Foreign Language University.[6] She later received an MBA from the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and attended Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management in the US as an exchange student.[7][4]
Mi founded VIPKid in 2013 while working as an English-language teacher in Beijing.[1] In 2017, Cindy Mi launched a subsidiary of the wider VIPKid brand called LingoBus that allows tutors to teach Mandarin.[8]
References
- ^ a b c "Cindy Mi". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ Berman, Nat (2017-11-01). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Cindy Mi". Money Inc. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "In China, a CEO's Journey from Teenage Tutor to Edtech Entrepreneur - EdSurge News". EdSurge. 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ a b Conboye, Janina (2018-01-29). "Entrepreneurship: VIPKid founder Cindy Mi's global online classroom". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "If the US Won't pay its Teachers China Will". Bloomberg.com. 19 December 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ Jacobs, Harrison. "A 35-year-old who dropped out of high school had a vision of a utopian future for China, the US, and the world — and it's led her to the forefront of a tech startup worth $3 billion". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Cindy Mi". LinkedIn.
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