#707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More

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Steve Jang (@stevejang) is the founder and
managing partner at Kindred Ventures, an
early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco. He is
also a longtime friend and one of the founder-now-investor
generation of VCs that arose out of the last technology cycle.
Steve is one of the top 100 venture capital investors in the
world, according to Forbes Midas List of top venture capital
investors, and was ranked #45 in 2023. He is also a
Korean-American, a gyopo, who is deeply invested and involved in
both the technological and cultural worlds in the US and
Asia. 


Previously, Steve was an early advisor to, and angel investor in,
Uber, and then an early-stage investor in Coinbase, Postmates,
Poshmark, Tonal, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Humane, the AI device
platform. He helped Uber, Coinbase, and Blue Bottle Coffee, among
others, to expand into Korea and Japan. As an entrepreneur, Steve
co-founded companies in the consumer internet, mobile, and crypto
space.


In the film and music world, he is an executive producer, and his
most recent film is Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest
TV, which tells the story of the greatest Korean artist,
and father of digital video art, and which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2023. His next film is a documentary
about Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum.


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