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Mercadolibre (NASDAQ:MELI). Let's take a look to find out if that's a valid analogy. Image source: Getty Images. The business Coupang was founded with the goal of building an end-to-end e-commerce platform for the Korean market. Its flagship offerings are the Rocket Delivery service and the Rocket Wow membership (similar to Amazon Prime) that give people same-day and next-day delivery on millions of items. This part of the business is almost an exact match for what Amazon does in the United States and other markets. However, Coupang goes a step further by offering its members what it calls "D...

Coupang, sometimes referred to as the Amazon of South Korea, ends sharply higher in debut Thursday.

Posted : 2021-03-12 17:35 Updated : 2021-03-14 19:05 On the left, a banner with Coupang's logo hangs from the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday (local time). On the right is Market Kurly's new logistics center in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province. Courtesy of each company By Kim Yoo-chul Coupang made a successful debut on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, with a spike in trading on the first day of its listing, boosting the market capitalization of the e-commerce company to $84.5 billion based on a total of 130 million shares offered. Coupang shares began trading at $63.5 per share, up 81.4 perc...

But in the eyes of venture capitalist Eric Kim, Coupang has already been "out-Amazoning Amazon" in Korea for a while.  SoftBank-backed Coupang, which raised $4.6 billion in IPO proceeds, had an extremely auspicious start on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Shares rocketed as much as 84% intraday before paring gains and closing up 42% on the day.  The ten-year-old company is led by billionaire Bom Kim, who dropped out of Harvard Business School after just six months to capture the massive e-commerce opportunity in South Korea.  Eric Kim first met Bom Kim in 2011, also just six month...

Story highlights The blockbuster listing, the biggest in New York since Alibaba's US record $25 billion offering in 2014, will make an overnight billionaire of founder Kim Bom-suk, with the 42-year-old CEO's 10 per cent holding worth around $6 billion South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang has raised $4.2 billion in its initial public offering that makes it the biggest listing in the United States so far this year. The Seoul-based firm is backed by SoftBank Group was valued at around $109 billion in its market debut on Thursday. Coupang's stock soared 81 per cent to open at $63.50. The compa...