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219 - Wendy Lieu - Founder of Socola Chocolatier
Wendy Lieu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Socola Chocolatier, an award-winning San Francisco chocolate company. Socola is the word for chocolate in Vietnamese, honoring her parents who fled Vietnam in 1981 as Boat People, landing in a Malaysian refugee camp where Wendy was later born. Her Vietnamese heritage is reflected in her product flavors and grit to pursue her dream.
In 2001, Wendy, 19, taught herself how to make chocolate truffles and began selling them in front of her parent's nail salon in Northern California along with her sister Susan, 16, during the summer farmer's market. After…
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