Chapter 13: The Million-Dollar Middle Schooler
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It had been several months since Jaesung last saw the Stanford graduate students Jeremy Yang and Dave Filo, and they looked like typical early startup founders. With messy hair and…
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Chapter 12: The Samgyeopsal Summit
As Jaesung skillfully demonstrated the process of creating the program for Costco, along with its clean interface and efficient data organization features, Jim Wharton showed great interest. After pondering silently…
Chapter 11: The Visit from Wal-Mart’s Heir
The man who introduced himself as Jim Wharton mistook Dad for James Yoo and flashed a typical business smile. “you’re here for James. I’m not James; I’m Seokhun. Jaesung-ah. It…
Chapter 10: The Costco Code
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Chapter 10: The Costco Code
After a long time, Walter, the manager of the Seattle Costco headquarters store, greeted Jaesung and Jaeeun warmly and also exchanged pleasantries with mom. “I heard you’re a computer genius;…
Chapter 9: Polo Lessons, Dot-Com Dreams
Having spent all the funds earned from selling the license to Microsoft, Jaesung was focusing on school life for a while, enjoying a well-deserved break. Though he had no experience…
Chapter 8: The Boy Who Bought Pixar
To inflate funds immediately, investing in Toy Story and sharing movie profits would be good, but the related contract had to be with Walt Disney. Given Walt Disney Studios’ characteristic…
Chapter 7: The Boy Who Met Steve Jobs
On the way as dad drove the rental car from Stanford University, crossing the San Mateo Bridge over the San Francisco Bay toward Oakland, he asked what kind of potential…
Chapter 6: The Birth of a Portal Empire
San Francisco and Seattle were relatively close, being in the west-central and northwestern parts of the United States, but due to the vast land of America, they traveled by plane…
Chapter 5: From Hot Dogs to Stocks
An employee in uniform spoke to Jaesung and Jaeeun, who were eating authentic American-style food. Since it was a warehouse-style big mart, parents, tired from shopping with kids, told them…