2020–2023 · Orange County, California
An early start
Đạt grew up in Orange County and started his first business in 2020. What began as small-scale electronics arbitrage during the pandemic grew, within a year, into a high-volume trading operation.
The business moved considerable volume on thin margins and was financed largely through short-term credit. Running it taught him how quickly financing costs and overhead erode returns, and how much depends on managing working capital well.
To formalise the operation, he took office space in Irvine in 2022, including a desk in a Class A office development on Jamboree. It added fixed costs before the economics fully supported them. It also gave him an early, close view of how institutional real estate is owned and managed, and some of the relationships from that time carried into his later work in finance and infrastructure development.
That period changed how he thought about enterprise. He became less interested in transactions for their own sake and more interested in what lets a business endure: sound economics, responsible financing, and the link between capital and productive assets.
His interest moved toward Vietnam, where those questions take a larger and more tangible form.
Corvus Industries grew out of that inquiry.







