Ep 93.1: Raising North Korean Entrepreneurs | Geoffrey See (former Chairman, Choson Exchange & WEF Young Global Leader)

North Korean women are entrepreneurs.


Not the first thing you might think of, but a reality that
STIMY’s latest guest - Geoffrey See - knows very well.


So who is Geoffrey See?


Here’s a quick run down


Graduated from Yale University & the Wharton Business
School; 

Worked as a Bain consultant;

Co-founded Choson Exchange: a social
enterprise that created the largest training program for female
entrepreneurs in North Korea - which ended up being profiled in a
Harvard Business School case study;

Helped launch a blockchain protocol that had a $2B coin cap
at its cap;

Is a digital currency taskforce member and consumer
protection report author at the World Economic Forum Global
Council for Digital Currency Governance;

Is a Ethereum Foundation fellow and a Kauffman Fellow; and

Is now the CEO of Poko: a Y-Combinator
backed startup focused on building DAOs to empower the next
generation of investors, entrepreneurs and creators






In Part 1, we cover his childhood & experience building
Choson Exchange.


Highlights:


3:22 A strange relationship with authority

5:28 Wharton Business School

8:15 First brush with North Korea

10:31 North Korean men in politics, women in business

11:17 What does “business” mean in North Korea?

14:51 Building partnerships with North Korean Universities

16:34 Overcoming paranoia 

20:16 How to find champions

21:48 Doing due diligence on potential partners

23:48 What North Koreans thought of the “rule of law”

28:26 Choson Exchange’s financing model

30:06 Measuring impact

31:15 Keeping the faith 

33:58 The people that helped Geoffrey the most (i.e. a former
Foreign Minister, National Security Advisor to multiple South
Korean Presidents & ex-Global Managing Director of McKinsey
& Company) 

37:05 Deciding to leave Choson Exchange 

38:56 The difficulties of letting go






Once you’ve listened to Part 1, head over to Part 2 to learn
about how Geoffrey entered the web3 space and what he’s doing
with Poko!





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