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For Dawoon Kang, co-founder of dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, entrepreneurship is in her blood.
Kang emigrated from Korea to the U.S. when she was 12 with her twin sister, Arum, and their older sister, Soo. A family friend looked after the girls while their parents stayed in Korea to run their business. "Being an immigrant had a huge impact on my identity," Kang says. That and being a woman "really shaped my world view," she says. In the U.S., the sisters overcame challenges together, including acclimating to the U.S. and learning English. It bonded them, and as adults they became business partners. Arum had the idea to create Coffee Meets Bagel in 2011, and the following year Kang quit...