Vu Tran is a co-founder of Go1, the Brisbane company that sells online training content to businesses. He trained as a doctor and still works as a GP. His parents are Vietnamese refugees, and his father left school after grade three.
Tran and Andrew Barnes built software together as schoolboys at Cannon Hill Anglican College. They earned about a dollar an hour from it. Go1 was founded in 2015 in Logan, Brisbane, with Chris Eigeland and Chris Hood as co-founders.
In 2016 Go1 received a A$178,000 Advance Queensland Ignite Ideas grant and joined Y Combinator. The application was filed with about a minute to spare, while Tran's bacon went cold. A A$4 million raise followed in January 2017, then a A$10 million Series A in 2018 and a A$30 million Series B about seven months later.
In mid-2021 a round led by SoftBank made Go1 Brisbane's first unicorn. A 2022 raise put the valuation at about $2 billion. In 2023 Go1 bought the German reading app Blinkist. Barnes later stepped back, leaving Eigeland as CEO.