66 | AUGUST 2019
As a personal pledge
to her late, maverick
grandmother, 32-year-
old Harvard graduate
and CEO/Founder of
career and community
-building app Mogul,
Tiffany Pham made
it her life’s mission to
find work that was
globally meaningful,
empowering, and
transformative.Mogul, an online platform and app
originally designed to help women expand
their community, meet like-minded women,
and embolden their career prospects,
has exponentially morphed into a multi-
faceted, multi-media company with a user
base of more than 30 million women in 196
countries in just a few short years. Inspired
by her giving grandmother who successfully
operated several philanthropic businesses
across Asia and who was the first female ever
to drive a car in Vietnam, Pham promised
herself to follow in her grandmother’s bold,
pioneer-like footsteps, dedicating her life to
helping others realize/achieve their goals, no
matter how seemingly challenging, daunting,
or trepidatious.
Humble (and Bashful) Beginnings
A lifelong, ardent admirer of female-driven
television shows and their respective
indomitable heroines, like I Love Lucy,
Gilmore Girls, and Friends, it’s of no
coincidence Pham eventually found herself
immersed in media and pop culture to
cultivate a connection with her American
surroundings. After completing her first year
in the esteemed MBA program at Harvard,
painfully shy Pham returned to Plano, TX
where you grew up, vowing, “I couldn’t
let a single moment in my life ever go by
again with regret...I always had
to speak up, be part of the
conversation, make sure to raise
my hand and share my voice.”So, in 2014, upon graduating
from Harvard and before
officially launching Mogul,
the bashful, yet brainy,
businesswoman-to-be held
an impressive number of
ambitious, media-based gigs- from director of business
development and strategic
initiatives and partnerships at
CBS to co-founder of the Beijing
International Screenwriting
Competition to film producer/
investor with NYC Film
Productions. Shortly after landing on Forbes’
distinguished 30 Under 30 list in 2014,
Pham’s inbox instantly flooded with emails
from women all over the world inquiring
Keep in mind, a
“no” is just a “not
right now” that can
easily turn into an
emphatic “yes” with
hard work, patience,
perseverance, and
self-discovery.
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