Dang Le Nguyen Vu was born on February 10, 1971 in Ninh Hoa, Khanh Hoa province, into a poor farming family that later moved to the M'Drak highlands of Dak Lak. While studying medicine at Tay Nguyen University, he shifted toward the coffee trade, working with his then-wife Le Hoang Diep Thao from 1992 and formally founding a coffee roasting operation called Trung Nguyen in Buon Ma Thuot in 1996, with famously modest beginnings. In 1998 Trung Nguyen opened its first cafe in Ho Chi Minh City and expanded quickly through franchising. The instant coffee brand G7 launched in 2003 to compete directly with Nescafe, and a large processing plant in Binh Duong came online in 2005. Trung Nguyen grew into one of Vietnam's leading domestic coffee brands, and Vu was dubbed the "Coffee King of Vietnam" by Forbes Asia and National Geographic Traveller.
The "coffee way" philosophy and youth entrepreneurship campaigns
Vu became known for philosophical pronouncements about coffee, his ambition to turn Buon Ma Thuot into a "global coffee sanctuary," and motivational speeches aimed at young entrepreneurs. In 2013 he withdrew for a 49 day meditation retreat in M'Drak and largely disappeared from public view for several years, resurfacing in 2018 under the self reference "Qua." He then launched the "Journey from the Heart" campaign, distributing books and promoting entrepreneurship among young people nationwide.
Family dispute and recent years
Starting in 2015, a dispute with Le Hoang Diep Thao over control of Trung Nguyen escalated into a divorce case Vietnamese media followed closely for years. A first-instance court granted the divorce in March 2019, and in May 2021 the Judicial Council of the Supreme People's Court issued a final ruling, dividing shared marital assets worth roughly 7.9 trillion dong; Vu retained most of the Trung Nguyen shares and paid Thao a balance to equalize the split. He remains Chairman and legal representative of Trung Nguyen Legend Group, still expanding the chain, which counted around 660 outlets in early 2025, with ambitions to grow further in China and the United States, even as export volumes remain modest relative to the size of the market.
At a glance
Birth date (solar)
10/2/1971
Birth-year stem-branch
Tân Hợi
Zodiac animal
Lợn
Life Path number
3
Notable achievements
Founded Trung Nguyen in 1996 in Buon Ma Thuot, growing it from a small roasting operation into one of Vietnam's leading domestic coffee brands
Launched the G7 instant coffee brand in 2003, competing directly with foreign instant coffee makers in the domestic market
Opened a large-scale coffee processing plant in Binh Duong in 2005
Dubbed the "Coffee King of Vietnam" by Forbes Asia and National Geographic Traveller
Launched the "Journey from the Heart" campaign, distributing books and promoting entrepreneurship among young people nationwide
Expanded Trung Nguyen Legend internationally, with outlets in several major Chinese cities and in the United States
Grew the chain to roughly 660 E-Coffee and Trung Nguyen Legend Cafe outlets by early 2025
Destiny & Fortune Analysis
Based on Pythagorean numerology, computed from the name and sourced birth date above.
Life Path Number
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Number Life Path: 3
Calculated from the sum of your full birth date (day + month + year), the Life Path Number is the most important figure in numerology: it outlines your central path, biggest life lesson, and the personality tendencies that run through your whole life.
Watch out for: Scattered focus, talks more than acts, avoids deep emotions.
Pythagorean Grid
3
6
91 ×
21 ×
5
8
1113 ×
4
71 ×
Numerology vs. reality
Life Path 3, usually associated with creativity, expressiveness and the ability to inspire, fits parts of Dang Le Nguyen Vu's public image reasonably well: a charismatic speaking style, a habit of building grand philosophical narratives around coffee, and a willingness to make attention-grabbing statements about youth entrepreneurship. But the number 3 is also typically linked to sociability and openness, which sits awkwardly against the years he spent largely absent from public life, retreating into extended meditation and relative isolation before returning to the spotlight. The mix of a crowd-inspiring public figure and a man who chose seclusion makes his profile hard to reduce to a single number; this is offered as pop-culture entertainment, not a factual claim about character or fate.
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Frequently asked
When was Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ born?
Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ was born on 10/2/1971, in the year Tân Hợi.
What is Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ's zodiac animal?
Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ is a Lợn, from the year Tân Hợi in the sixty-year stem-branch cycle.
What is Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ's Life Path number?
Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ's Life Path number is 3, obtained by reducing the digits of 10/2/1971.
What is Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ's Expression number?
The Expression number is 1, computed from the full birth name rather than the birth date, so it changes if the name does.
Where does Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ's birth date come from?
Tổng hợp báo chí (CafeF, Tuổi Trẻ, Thanh Niên, Dân Trí) và Wikipedia, đối chiếu 09/2026 Every astrological and numerological figure on this page is computed from that date and name, not copied from a table.