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    Yeogirl Yun

    Yeogirl Yun

    Mr. Yeogirl Yun is an entrepreneur and technologist who is passionate about developing technologies that improve people's lives.

    CEO Hong Kong Stanford University '95
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    Experience
    www.mysimon.com
    www.mysimon.com
    Founder
    www.wisenut.com
    www.wisenut.com
    Founder
    www.become.com
    www.become.com
    Founder
    Gshopper
    Gshopper
    Founder
    Tandem Computers
    Tandem Computers
    Employee
    Founder
    www.become.com, www.wisenut.com, www.mysimon.com, Gshopper
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    Tandem Computers
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    Gshopper: Shop Beyond Borders
    A revolutionary e-commerce platform connecting the world.
    CEO · Gshopper is the world's first "e-importer",​ using big data, predictive analytics and AI-based product recommendation engines to… · More discover the most popular, emerging products from around the world. These tools allow Gshopper to predict new trends and proactively meet demand in new markets.

    Gshopper provides customers with a seamless, cross-border shopping experience for high-quality, global products. Our deep technology, advanced logistics, established global relationships, and worldwide network of distribution centers enable us to offer great prices and rapid fulfillment.
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    With David Lebovic, Chris Kermoian, Daniel Washburn
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Yeogirl has founded five companies for the past 20 years in the Internet search engine, e-commerce industry in the US, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Yeogirl holds 4 US patents and 1 Korea patent to date.

    Yeogirl founded mySimon.com in 1998 and served as CTO. It was acquired by CNET in February of 2000, for $700M.

    In 1999, Yeogirl also founded the Wisenut.com search engine company and served as CTO. Wisenut was acquired by LookSmart in April of 2002.

    In 2000, Yeogirl also founded Wisenut, Inc. in Korea (formerly Korea WISEnut) and served as Chairman. In 2005, Wisenut was selected as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in Asia Pacific by Deloitte Technology and is on track to go IPO in a few years.

    In 2004, Yeogirl also founded Become.com and served as Chairman and CTO until March of 2007. It was acquired by Connexity in 2014.

    Since 2007, Yeogirl has been building a global cross-border e-commerce platform at Gshopper.com.

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    Skills
    Search Engine Technology Information Retrieval Entrepreneurship Software Engineering and Architecture Data Mining Machine Learning E-Commerce Social Commerce Product Management Public Speaking Leadership
    Locations
    Hong Kong Silicon Valley
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