Company Info for bluestacks.com | IcebreakerMembers
👨💻 Trilingual🇬🇧🇪🇸🇮🇹, I help founders turn VISION into EXECUTION
🟢 GTM & Product Marketing Leader with experience in AI, SaaS, Web3 & fintech.
Check some of my case histories 👇
⏬ Acquired first 500 beta testers and increased overall community by 54% for a non-custodial smart contract wallet (2022-23)
💰 Created a strategy that led to a record-breaking day of 336,000+ users on web3 game website, turning numerous users into buyers and generating 200k+ USD in revenues (2021)
👩🏼🎨 Led a rebranding following Series B fundraising, launching a campaign for a new Web3 product (2021-22)
🎮 Launched the largest Southern Europe Discord eSport community in Europe, producing 100+ eSport tournaments each month streamed by YouTube & Twitch creators (2021)
📹 9,000,000+ views on YouTube with Influencer Video Production (2018-2020)
📈 Growth affiliate traffic by 271% for a Series C startup, increased CPI revenues by 63% (2018-2020)
💰 Attracted investors for several crypto token launches ($SAND, $SOV, $IDO)
🤝 Building partnerships with brands entering the AI, GameFi, DeFi, ReFi, NFT & Web3 space
🏡 Visited 150+ co-working, co-living & eco-residence worldwide
🎙️ Speaker about crypto, NFT, metaverse, digital nomads & ImpactDAO
🌐 I have been living & working in Australia, the UK, Spain & Italy
Some remarkable clients I have helped:
▶ Blockchain & Web3
The Sandbox, Safe wallet, LandVault, Admix, qubit wallet, Reality Cards, Sovryn, Idexo, SmashVerse
▶ Entertainment + Gaming + eSports
BlueStacks, Game.tv, Microsoft Xbox, Foxtel, RedBull, Sky, WeChat - Tencent, BEAMS Art Festival, Kensington Street
▶ FMCG + Spirits
Mondelez - Kraft Foods (Philadelphia, Milka/Cadbury, Oreo, Mikado/Pocky, Halls, TUC, Kraft Singles/Sottilette, The Natural Confectionery Co.), Nestlé (Cheerios), PepsiCo (Twisties), Jacobs Douwe Egberts (Carte Noir, Caffé Hag), Chupa Chups, Bacardì, Spice Alley - Asian food district
▶ Travel & Hospitality
Tourism New Zealand, ScuolaZoo Viaggi, Spice Alley, EcoWorldHotel.com
▶ Pharma/Health Care
Palmolive, MAC Cosmetics, Sigmatau - Carnydin
▶ Sport
Sky Sport, Sky Racing Team VR 46 (Valentino Rossi's MotoGP team), Foot Locker, Speedo
▶ Virtual Real Estate on Ethereum Blockchain
The Sandbox, Poly Australia, Chiwayland, Greencliff 
Jihong Kim is a venture capitalist at Samsung Ventures and has led both financial and strategic investments in software, digital media, and services. Noteworthy exits include SentinelOne (NYSE: S), Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE), BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC), Raxium (acquired by Google), ClassPass (acquired by Mindbody), Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Pluto.tv (acquired by Viacom), Fetch Robotics (acquired by Zebra Technologies), and Loom.ai (acquired by Roblox). He works closely with multiple business units across Samsung in mobile, consumer electronics and enterprise software sectors in order to identify and build strategic partnerships.
Before joining Samsung Ventures, Jihong worked as a research analyst in a global long-short equity hedge fund. Prior to that, he advised enterprise clients in business strategy and execution as a management consultant at PwC. He began his career as a software engineer in Lucent Technologies and also held technical positions at early-stage tech start-ups.
Jihong holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. 
