
The Zapcom founder built his career inside the invisible machinery of travel. His next wager is that enterprise AI needs the same discipline: product judgment, durable architecture, and an unforgiving eye for the customer.

He left the corporate ladder with a 10 million won stake and a stubborn question: what if Korea's good ideas had somewhere to become real things? A decade later, his work has moved from 3D printers to a venture studio built around revenue, repeat customers, and execution.

After two decades across India, the Middle East and Canada, the TBDC marketing chief has turned a hard-earned lesson into an operating system: a company’s reputation does not cross borders automatically.

From Tencent’s founding e-commerce team to a garage-born fashion platform, Zhang learned to prize the infrastructure nobody sees. Now she is carrying that operator’s instinct back into venture investing at YZi Labs.