If you only have people who know the path, you will only have ideas, and nothing will happen. You have to have people who walk the path and can execute the idea.
As a part of our series about women who are shaking things up in their industry, we had the pleasure of interviewing Seung-Ae Park.
In a male-dominated tech world in South Korea, Seung-Ae Park is one of the youngest female CEOs in the country and has broken several glass ceilings. Since taking over in 2020, Seung-Ae Park has focused on building JiranSoft into a leading SaaS company in Korea. Last year alone, under Ms. Park’s direction, the company made 10 billion won in sales from a single office keeper product. More than half of that is revenue from cloud-like services
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
I had the unique opportunity to become JiranSoft’s CEO within eight years of joining the company.
I joined JiranSoft as a salesperson In 2012. At the time, their main product, OfficeKeeper, was generating less than $1,000 per month in sales. After I joined JiranSoft, however, OfficeKeeper sales started to increase through various affiliate activities.