Bom Kim

Kim Beomseok (; born October 7, 1978), known professionally in the West as Bom Kim, is a Korean-American businessman and entrepreneur who is the founder and chief executive officer of Coupang, the largest e-commerce company in South Korea. In 2018, when SoftBank Vision Fund invested US$2 billion in Coupang, valuating the company at US$9 billion, Kim became the newest and second-youngest billionaire in South Korea at the age of 40. As of March 2023, Kim has a net worth of US$2.7 billion. Early life and education Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea on October 7, 1978. In middle school, he and his family moved to the United States. He went to Deerfield Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts, where he was on the varsity wrestling and track teams. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and attended Harvard Business School, dropping out in his second semester. Kim interned at The New Republic, started a student magazine, Current, and worked briefly at Boston Consulting Group prior to founding the magazine 02138, named for Harvard's ZIP Code. He raised $4 million to fund 02138 and started Coupang after it folded. Coupang