Sean Hyunil Sohn

CEO, KRAFTON India · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sean Hyunil Sohn oversees the Indian operations of South Korean gaming company Krafton, leading titles such as Battlegrounds Mobile India. He also directs Krafton's venture ecosystem investments in India, deploying over $150 million into domestic tech, media, and gaming startups.

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4 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sean argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Sohn: BGMI holds a 5% to 10% gaming market share in India
“BGMI, I would say, Five, 10%.”
Sean Hyunil Sohn Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:20:06 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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Everything Sean Hyunil Sohn said on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sohn: 80M to 100M Indian gamers are willing to pay in-app
“I believe like, people who are actually regularly playing one specific, one or two specific games, and at least willing to pay. Maybe they haven't paid at all, or they might pay once in a, like, maybe three, five, six months, which has capacity to pay or willi…”
Sean Hyunil Sohn Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:43:55 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Sohn: BGMI holds a 5% to 10% gaming market share in India
“BGMI, I would say, Five, 10%.”
Sean Hyunil Sohn Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:20:06 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Sohn: Krafton's market cap is roughly $9B to $10B
“We, our market cap is around Nine billion? Ten billion? US dollar?”
Sean Hyunil Sohn Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 9:46 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Sohn: Tencent was a pre-IPO investor in Krafton and maintains equity
“Tencent is an investor in Krafton before the IPO. And they still maintain some share.”
Sean Hyunil Sohn Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 25:17 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath Apr 21, 2024 20m
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