Coupang: How a Harvard Dropout Built Korea's Most Valuable Startup | CNBC

I’m inside Coupang’s fulfillment center just outside Seoul.

This company’s been dubbed the Amazon of South Korea and was recently ranked as the country’s most valuable start-up.

We know the truck it’s gonna go into, the route it’s going to be out on, and then that tells us how it needs to be sorted here and when it needs

to leave.

That’s propelled founder Bom Kim to billionaire status and made Coupang into a national icon.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that we are in every apartment complex and every apartment building at least once a day.

That’s not bad for a guy who dropped out of Harvard Business School after just six months.

I had a belief when I was in grad school that I had a very short window to really make something that had an impact.

During a recent visit to Seoul, I got to sit down with the 41-year-old e-commerce CEO at Coupang’s headquarters.

And while he may have reached the heights of success now, he says he didn’t exactly set out to become the next Jeff Bezos.