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Yeogirl Yun

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Founder at Gshopper

Singapore, Singapore

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Yeogirl Yun is the Founder and CEO of Gshopper.com, a global e-commerce company headquartered in Singapore with subsidiaries in more than 16 countries and backed by nearly $100 million in venture capital. Over 25 years, Yun founded five companies across the U.S., Korea, China, and Japan, including mySimon.com, acquired by CNET in 2000; Wisenut.com, acquired by LookSmart; Wisenut, Inc. Korea, which went public on KOSDAQ in January 2025; and Become.com. Yun holds four U.S. patents and one Korean patent in search algorithms and AI-driven technology.

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Experience

  1. GshopperFounder & CEOcurrent2008 — presentSingapore
  2. WisenutFounder & Chairmancurrent2000 — presentSeoul
  3. Become, Inc.Founder, Chairman & CTO2004 — 2007www.become.com
  4. WiseNut, Inc.Founder & CTO1999 — 2002Sunnyvale, CA
  5. mySimon, Inc.Founder & CTO1998 — 1999Santa Clara, CA
  6. JazzSoft, Inc.CTO1996 — 1998Mountain View, CA
  7. One-O, Inc.CTO1996Mountain View, CA
  8. Tandem Computers, Inc.Software Designer1995 — 1996Cupertino, CA

Skills & more

Entrepreneurship73Technology Management8Information Retrieval50Product Management22Data Mining37Search Engine Technology28Search Engine Ranking9Comparison Shopping Engines9Social Shopping7Technical Leadership8Strategic Leadership8Distributed Systems81
+12 moreMachine LearningStart-upsVenture CapitalE-commerceScalabilityRecommender SystemsSoftware DevelopmentMobile DevicesC++JavaEnterprise SoftwareHadoop

Languages Chinese · English · Korean

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Who is Yeogirl Yun?
Yeogirl Yun is the Founder and CEO of Gshopper.com, a global e-commerce company headquartered in Singapore with subsidiaries in more than 16 countries and backed by nearly $100 million in venture capital. Over 25 years, Yun founded five companies across the U.S., Korea, China, and Japan, including mySimon.com, acquired by CNET in 2000; Wisenut.com, acquired by LookSmart; Wisenut, Inc. Korea, which went public on KOSDAQ in January 2025; and Become.com. Yun holds four U.S. patents and one Korean patent in search algorithms and AI-driven technology.
Where does Yeogirl Yun work?
Yeogirl Yun is Founder of Gshopper.
What companies did Yeogirl Yun found?
Yeogirl Yun founded Gshopper.
Where did Yeogirl Yun go to school?
Yeogirl Yun studied at Stanford University (Master's degree, Computer Sicence); Seoul National University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering).

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