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

我此刻位於首爾郊外的Coupang物流中心內部。

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

這家公司被譽為“韓國的亞馬遜”，最近更被評為該國最有價值的初創企業。

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

我們知道它將被裝入哪輛卡車、走哪條路線，這決定了它在這裡該如何分揀以及何時需要出發。

to leave.

離開。

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

這一成就將創始人金炳（Bom Kim）推上了億萬富翁的寶座，並使Coupang成為國家象徵。

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

毫不誇張地說，我們每天至少會進入每一個公寓小區和每一棟公寓樓一次。

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

對於一個在哈佛商學院僅讀了六個月就退學的人來說，這成績已相當不錯。

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.

我在讀研究生時曾堅信，自己只有很短的時間視窗去真正做出有影響力的事。

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

在最近一次造訪首爾期間，我有幸在Coupang總部與這位41歲的電商CEO進行了面談。

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.

雖然他如今已登上成功的巔峰，但他表示自己當初並非刻意要成為下一個傑夫·貝佐斯。