Cindy Mi

Cindy Mi is a Chinese entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of ABC English and founder of VIPKid.[1]

Cindy Mi
Born
Hebei, China
Alma materCheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
Occupations
  • Educator
  • entrepreneur

Biography

Mi was born in the province of ratio Hebei, China.[2][3] At age 14 Mi moved to Harbin in north-eastern China.[4] She continued to teach herself English, and by age 15 she began to tutor other students in English at an extracurricular school organized by her uncle in Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China.[1]

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
  1. "Cindy Mi". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  2. Berman, Nat (2017-11-01). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Cindy Mi". Money Inc. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  3. "In China, a CEO's Journey from Teenage Tutor to Edtech Entrepreneur - EdSurge News". EdSurge. 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  4. Conboye, Janina (2018-01-29). "Entrepreneurship: VIPKid founder Cindy Mi's global online classroom". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  5. "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.
  6. 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.
  7. "Cindy Mi". LinkedIn.
  8. "Cindy Mi".
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