Background
He was born in Seoul, South of Korea and moved to San Jose, California on April 2, 1976, with his family when he was 14 years old.
He was born in Seoul, South of Korea and moved to San Jose, California on April 2, 1976, with his family when he was 14 years old.
Columbia University; University of California, Berkeley.
After attending University of California Berkeley and Columbia University graduate school, Michael worked for Xerox, Intergraph, Televideo, Samsung and Jazz Multimedia before starting his first venture capital backed startup company mySimon with Yeogirl Yun in April 1998. mySimon was acquired by Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications in 2000 for $700 million during the Internet boom. He then started Become.com in January 2004 and raised $37 million in capital from TPG, Transcosmos, EFF and Ron Conway.
Michael has served as member of the Information Technology Advisory Council for President George West. Bush in 2001 and as an advisory board member of Creative Economy Leader advisory group for President Park Geun-hye of South of Korea in 2013.