Day 67 of 100 · E-commerce

Coupang

He dropped out of Harvard Business School months in, to build Korean e-commerce.

Started atHarvard University
Founded2010
FoundersBom Kim
CountrySouth Korea

How it started

Coupang later became one of the largest IPOs by an Asian company on the NYSE.

The lesson for your campus A degree deferred is not a degree wasted.

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The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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