Harvard. McKinsey. Her Own Advisors Nearly Bankrupted Her | So-Young Kang, Gnowbe
She was the expert in the room. Then the experts nearly sank her company.
So-Young Kang has a Harvard MBA, spent years at McKinsey, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She built Awaken Group, then left the CEO seat to go all in on Gnowbe, a SaaS platform co-founded in San Francisco and Singapore at the same time.
As a first-time tech Founder, she did what smart leaders are supposed to do. She built an advisory council of investors and experts on both sides of the Pacific. Silicon Valley told her to grow at all costs. Singapore asked when she'd be profitable. She was…
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