Songyee Yoon | Principal Venture Partners - On why gaming is the frontier of tech, why tomorrow's biggest companies are starting today, and why it pays to have a thick skin

28/05/2025 35 min

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Meet Songyee Yoon, one of the most inspiring tech leaders and investors around today. In this conversation, she shares her remarkable journey from growing up in Korea to getting her PhD in computational neuroscience at MIT to becoming the President and Chief Strategy Officer at NCSoft, one of the world's biggest gaming companies. She discusses her transition from academia to industry, the evolution of gaming technology, and why understanding it is essential to understanding the future. And why she made the jump to launch a new venture capital firm, Principal Venture Partners, which focuses on investing in AI native companies. Throughout the discussion, she shares valuable lessons about overcoming adversity, why it pays to have a thick skin, and why there is no single type of perfect founder.

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