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Kihwan Kim Is Turning a Video-Call Startup Into a Clinic Company
The former semiconductor marketer began with doctor discovery, moved into remote appointments, and ended up opening doors in five states. His useful lesson is simple: when software meets reality, follow the patient journey - even if it leads back to a room.
Yulduck Sung Put a Programmer’s Logic Inside an Italian Shoe
He began as a mobile-game programmer, learned the shoe trade inside E-Land’s European operation, and spent six months hearing no from Italian factories. The business that followed runs on an unlikely pairing: old-world craft and the restless logic of software.
Sophie Eom
Sophie Soowon Eom is the co-founder and CEO of Adriel, an AI-powered marketing intelligence and ad-reporting platform used by hundreds of brands and agencies across more than 20 countries. A HEC Paris finance grad turned two-time AI founder, she first built Solidware, a machine-learning credit-scoring startup that landed her on the 2017 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list, then pivoted to fixing the chaos of cross-channel ad data. She has sat alongside Melinda Gates and Jack Ma on the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation and served on South Korea's Presidential Committee on the 4th Industrial Revolution.