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    CK Chang Kim

    CK Chang Kim

    Founder, Tapas Media (acq. by Kakao Entertainment @$510M); Global Strategy Officer, Kakao Entertainment; Project Manager, Google; Co-CEO, TNC (acq. by @google)

    Entrepreneur Los Angeles University of Michiga...
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    Experience
    Kakao Entertainment
    Kakao Entertainment
    Employee
    Tapas Media
    Tapas Media
    Founder, CEO 2012 - Present (over 14 years)
    Google
    Google
    Product Manager 2008 - 2012 (over 3 years)
    TNC
    TNC
    Co-CEO 2006 - 2008 (about 2 years)
    Samsung Electronics
    Samsung Electronics
    Content/apps strategy 2003 - 2006 (over 3 years)
    Nextel
    Nextel
    Strategic Planning 1999 - 2002 (about 3 years)
    SparkLabs
    SparkLabs
    Mentor
    United Korean Founders (UKF)
    United Korean Founders (UKF)
    Chief Strategy Officer 2026 - Present (10 months)
    • Volunteer as part of the leadership committee for UKF - the leading community for Korean and Korean American founders.
    Saywise
    Saywise
    Co-Founder and CEO 2024 - Present (over 2 years)
    • Co-founder and CEO of Saywise, an AI agent job search platform.
    PEF Community
    PEF Community
    Member 2023 - Present (over 3 years)
    • Member of the PEF Community.
    Self-employed
    Self-employed
    Angel Investor 2008 - Present (almost 19 years)
    • Angel investor for 50+ funds and companies.
    Rabbit VC
    Rabbit VC
    General Partner 2023 - 2024 (about 1 year)
    • General Partner at Rabbit VC.
    Nextel Korea
    Nextel Korea
    Manager - Strategic Planning 1999 - 2002 (over 3 years)
    • Corporate strategy planning.
    Founder
    Tapas Media
    Employee
    Google, Samsung Electronics, Nextel Korea, Rabbit VC, Self-employed, PEF Community, Saywise, United Korean Founders (UKF), Nextel, TNC, Kakao Entertainment
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
     
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
    SparkLabs
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    Introducing Tapas
    Reading for the Snapchat generation
    Here at Tapas Media, we recognized early on that mobile was " eating the world" and presenting unprecedented opportunities to every single… · More industry, including the publishing industry. During this time, ...
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Chang Kim (“CK”) is a 3x founder with multiple exits (last company sold at $510M) and angel investor/adviser. CK is currently co-founder and CEO at Saywise, a fully agentic job search platform that helps people find and land the right opportunities. Sage, a 24/7 AI recruiter agent, works like a human recruiter, helping users throughout the entire job search process. Users can interact with Sage anytime via text message. Formerly, CK was the founder and CEO of Tapas, a mobile storytelling platform for original IP creators, which was acquired by Korea’s Kakao Entertainment in 2021. Prior, he was a product manager at Google’s Blogger. CK joined Google when the company he co-founded, TNC (a leading blogging software company in Korea), was acquired by Google. Prior to TNC, CK was at Samsung Electronics, in charge of Samsung’s mobile content strategies.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Product Development Project Management Management Startups Product Management Social Networking Social Media Korean
    Locations
    North America Los Angeles
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