Purpose Mixed with Passion

Fast forward some more. You are now the President of Compass. What is your vision for the company, and what would you say is the greater or higher purpose that is guiding your work there?

It’s interesting. I’ll say, at Compass, we want to empower the country’s largest group of entrepreneurs, real estate agents. There’s 2 million of them across the country, and they are small business owners, right? These are individuals who choose to forego a steady salary, steady income, and they bet on themselves.
And it’s not that different from the work or the purpose behind the work I did in Rwanda. Those women were also small business owners, just like our agents at Compass. And for me, the ability to do, in my profession, in any role that I’m in, the ability to support entrepreneurs who want to better themselves, better their families, better their communities, that’s amazing.
And what I in particular love about real estate is there are no barriers to entry, right? You don’t need a fancy graduate degree. You don’t need to have come from certain parents or a certain side of town.
You don’t need anything like that to get into real estate, right? You just need to have passion. You need to be great at serving your clients, your buyers or sellers, needing to have grit, resilience, hustle.
I mean, Thuy, those are the things that, coming from immigrant families, that’s second nature. And I believe that this country and our communities have been made better by people like that. And I really want to support them.
And I also just personally, I love that a piece of what we get to do is support these entrepreneurs who are supporting their clients to attain the American dream, homeownership. What feels more authentic to that vision than getting to own a small slice of this country yourself? And so to be able to be a part of that flywheel is so rewarding.