PUBG Creator, Former Child Coding Prodigy, Plans IPO Worth Billions
Kim Chang-han was the brainchild behind PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds, or PUBG, in 2017. Kim Chang-han, a former child computer prodigy who won national coding competitions in South Korea in the 1980s, had reached his lowest point. It was 2014, and he'd just laid off a third of the employees at his gaming startup. Since 2000, he'd created three multiplayer online games at three startups that all fell flat. “That was the darkest time in my life,” Kim, 46, recalled. The following year, he sold his firm to the company now known as Krafton Inc., which he joined as an executive producer. Then...
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