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John Sung Kim

John Sung Kim is the current CEO of JetBridge and the founding CEO of Five9, U.S.-based global software companies.

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John Sung Kim: What Elon Musk and others in Silicon Valley get wrong about Ukraine

by John Sung Kim
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in the op-ed section are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the views of the Kyiv Independent. I’ve spent most of my career in Silicon Valley, creating three startups totaling billions of dollars in market cap thanks to my brilliant engineers. I’ve been very fortunate. But it wasn’t until my engineers suggested we visit Ukraine that I found true happiness. I lived in Kyiv for three years, made an incredible group of friends, and met my wif