Lee Seung-yoon, co-founder and CEO of the intellectual property (IP) Blockchain platform Story and the artificial intelligence (AI) data infrastructure Poseidon, was selected for the "2026 Young Global Leader (YGL)" released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
According to the industry on the 20th, the WEF selects and releases YGLs every year from among people under 40 worldwide who have demonstrated outstanding achievements and future potential across sectors of society. In Korea, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Kim Dong-Kwan, Hyosung Group Vice Chairman Cho Hyun-sang, and Toss CEO Lee Seung-gun have been named to the YGL list.
Lee joined the list as a founder representing Korea in the next-generation industrial field of AI and data infrastructure. After majoring in philosophy at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Lee founded the crowdfunding journalism startup Byline in London. Lee later founded the web novel platform Radish targeting the North American market and sold it to Kakao Entertainment.
Building on an understanding of the IP and content industries accumulated in this process, Lee co-founded Story and Poseidon. Story has raised more than $140 million from global investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, and Samsung Ventures. Poseidon aims to ease the recurring data shortages and copyright issues in existing AI development and to build a more stable environment for data use.