Sendo bets on groceries - will it pay off?

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But one thing I did that makes me cringe - I’m sure everyone has these moments - was being a little too caught up in the prevailing trends of the day so that I could fit in. Even now, it’s a little too embarrassing for me to share what those trends were. All I’ll say is that I ended up trying to like certain types of music or bands, even if I didn’t really care about them. Eventually, I found my own way after learning to be honest with myself and figuring out what I truly enjoyed. I also learned how important it is to do what you think is right for yourself rather than what everyone else is doing. This seems to be the case for the company in today’s premium story. Amid an intensely competitive ecommerce market, Sendo had to find its own path to profitability through a sea of rivals. -- Jonathan  ---------------------------------------------------------------  THE BIG STORY [Vietnam’s Sendo bets on groceries to revive ecommerce fortunes]( The online grocery business is now the firm's largest and fastest-growing unit, handling about 50 tonnes of goods and serving 10,000 customers daily. --------------------------------------------------------------- TRENDING NEWS [OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever launches ‘safe’ AI firm]( Sutskever co-founded Safe Superintelligence with Daniel Gross, previously Apple’s AI head, and Daniel Levy, a former OpenAI researcher. 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