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

我此刻位于首尔郊外的Coupang物流中心内部。

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

这家公司被誉为“韩国的亚马逊”，最近更被评为该国最有价值的初创企业。

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

我们知道它将被装入哪辆卡车、走哪条路线，这决定了它在这里该如何分拣以及何时需要出发。

to leave.

离开。

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

这一成就将创始人金炳（Bom Kim）推上了亿万富翁的宝座，并使Coupang成为国家象征。

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

毫不夸张地说，我们每天至少会进入每一个公寓小区和每一栋公寓楼一次。

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

对于一个在哈佛商学院仅读了六个月就退学的人来说，这成绩已相当不错。

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.

我在读研究生时曾坚信，自己只有很短的时间窗口去真正做出有影响力的事。

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

在最近一次造访首尔期间，我有幸在Coupang总部与这位41岁的电商CEO进行了面谈。

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.

虽然他如今已登上成功的巅峰，但他表示自己当初并非刻意要成为下一个杰夫·贝佐斯。