Chang Chen
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A Conversation with Thailand's First Unicorn Founder: From Orphan to $3 Billion CEO --- When Kavin Bhumikittikul was six years old, he watched his mother walk out the door and never come back. His father, a gambling addict, had accumulated crushing debts. The family shattered. Kavin and his siblings were sent to separate orphanages across Bangkok. Forty years later, he is the founder and CEO of Agoda, the online travel platform valued at roughly $3 billion — Thailand's first unicorn, and one of Southeast Asia's most consequential tech companies. I met Kavin at Agoda's Bangkok headquarters, a sleek glass tower overlooking the Chao Phraya River. He arrived without an entourage, wearing a company polo shirt and carrying his own laptop bag. The contrast between his current stature and his origins is almost too stark to process. Yet he speaks about both with the same even, analytical tone — as if describing data points in a business case rather than his own life. --- **"I learned to sell before I learned to read properly"** Kavin's earliest memory of commerce is selling candy to other children at his orphanage, age seven. He would buy bulk packs with his meager allowance
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