page_title: Bom Kim
section_title: Coupang
hierarchical_section_title: Bom Kim / Coupang
caption_attribution_description: English: Coupang delivery truck in Seoul.
context_page_description: Bom Kim is a billionaire Korean businessman who founded Korea's largest e-commerce company, Coupang according to Forbes. Softbank Vision Fund invested $2 billion to a valuation of $9 billion in the fall of 2018, making Kim South Korea’s newest and second-youngest billionaire at the age of 40.
context_section_description: Kim founded Coupang in 2010 and since then has gone on to raise more than $3.8 billion in venture capital from investors such as Sequoia Capital, Softbank, BlackRock, and others. 
  It began as a Groupon-like website and now operates as an online retailer and operates a 24-hour logistics service called Rocket Delivery. It was reported in 2018 that Coupang would gross 2.7 trillion won in annual sales and lost 1.7 trillion won between 2015 and 2017 and maintains over 3.5 million daily active users as of 2019.
  The company currently employs over 10,000 people with offices in Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle and Silicon Valley.
caption: Coupang delivery truck in Seoul, 2017.
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