Bom Kim Biography

Dropping out of Harvard Business School after six months and folding his first company didn’t stop Bom Kim 40 from going on to become South Korea’s second-youngest billionaire. That was through founding Coupang Korea’s answer to Amazon. Starting as a Groupon-esque daily-deals business (and curiously Korea’s top diaper retailer) Coupang has ballooned into an e-commerce powerhouse that raked in $4.1 billion in sales revenue in 2018 and record investment from SoftBank.
Korean-born but American-bred Kim was a New Englander for most of his formative years attending boarding school in Massachusetts before the Harvard stint. He stayed in the Bay State working at Boston Consulting Group before starting his own magazine an unofficial Harvard alumni publication called 02138—Cambridge’s zip code. The magazine stayed above water for two years—under Atlantic Media ownership for a portion of that time—before closing in 2008.
Better things were to come when Kim returned to his homeland the Amazon-absent South Korea where he founded what he envisions as a “next generation e-commerce model.”

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