Joseph Park (born c. 1972) is a

Korean American Korean Americans are Americans of Korean ancestry (mostly from South Korea). In 2015, the Korean-American community constituted about 0.56% of the United States population, or about 1.82 million people, and was the fifth-largest Asian Americans ...

investment banker Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated with ...

who founded

Kozmo.com Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, dvds, music, mags, books, food, basics & more" and Starbucks coffee in several major cities in the United States. It was founded by yo ...

in 1997. He was profiled in the documentary film ''

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''. He was a co-founder of

Askville Askville was a user-driven research site founded by Amazon.com. It was opened to the public on December 8, 2006, and shut down on October 25, 2013. History Askville was co-founded by Korean-American former investment banker Joseph Park, previ ...

, which was owned by

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and closed in 2013. In late June 2009, he left Amazon to work for

Zondervan Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Zondervan is a founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). They are a part of HarperCollins Christian Publ ...

as president of

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, which Zondervan acquired in November 2008 from

Gospel Communications International Gospel Communications International (formerly Gospel Films) was a non-profit Christian organization and the founder and parent organization of several Christian websites based in Muskegon, Michigan. Gospel Communications Network was founded in ...

. As of 2022, Park works for

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

in South Korea.

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Living people 1969 births {{US-business-bio-1960s-stub 20th-century American businesspeople American people of Korean descent