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Yoon Kim, a hedge fund industry veteran who recently founded Minnit, a live Q&A platform joins Enterprise Radio to discuss why he left hedge funds to launch his own business platforms.
Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Yoon Kim discuss the following:
- How did you get into the hedge fund industry and what did you learn from working in it?
- From your experience in the financial sector, you have a lot of thoughts on the way the U.S. economy is set up. Where do you think the U.S. can improve the most?
- Explain to our listeners about your newest startup, Minnit.co, the live platform for sharing and exchanging knowledge.
- As a new entrepreneur, what are have been your biggest challenges in starting up new business ideas?
- What advice can you give to our entrepreneurial listeners? Anything that you’ve learned that you didn’t know before starting your own business platforms?
Yoon Kim has 16 years experience investing in public companies focused on the Internet and consumer tech sector. After having worked in the hedge fund industry for companies like Morgan Stanley, Tremblant Capital, and Ziff Brothers Investments, Kim founded Vestry Capital in 2008. Identifying a passion for starting up new ventures, Yoon Kim took the skills and knowledge he gained from doing business in the hedge fund world and set out to build a way to tackle systemic underemployment by building a stronger knowledge economy. His first product Minnit.co is the first part of that solution: a live help desk for everything, powered by the crowd in 15 minute increments.
Website: www.Minnit.co
Crunchbase:Â https://www.crunchbase.com/person/yoon-kim-3#/entity
