Below is an article from the Oct/Nov 2000 issue of A. Magazine
Dormroom.com
Meet four young Asian Americans who started Internet enterprises
while they were still in school.
by Jeffrey Yamaguchi,
Oct 26, 2000
People move around a lot these days in their professional careers, but Young
"Gil" Kim has "serial entrepreneur" written all over
him. In the middle of his senior year at Harvard back in 1996, Kim started
writing the business plan for his candy company, Xanadu Inc., and ran it
exclusively until 1998. Since then he has already been involved with three
Internet ventures. He was a founding member of the college auction website
Campus24.com, which was bought by CollegeClub.com for $1.5 million. Then he
served as the COO and CFO of mainCampus.com, which burned most of its cash and
recently closed shop. Most recently, he's the founder and CEO of CampusNut.com.
As for the candy business, Kim still owns it. "I realized that if I'm
really passionate about something, I should really not have people limit what I
can do," says Kim. "Many of my colleagues went into consulting or
investment banking, and that's a very safe route to go to learn a lot, but for
me, I always had the entrepreneurial drive."
CampusNut.com is a content and commerce site for Generation Y. It's a crowded
field, but Kim seems to know what he's doing. To generate pre-launch interest,
for example, the site held contests with such sought-after prizes as tickets to
Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera concerts. So far, the company has raised
$50,000 and is currently seeking an additional quarter-million in financing.
