Sunguk Moon

Blind App is a professional network where verified employees can talk openly and anonymously regarding their work-life difficulties. Blind has over 7 million verified professionals.

About the company

Blind App offers a community and anonymous forum for verified professionals to talk about challenges in the workplace. On Blind, users are categorized by themes, companies, and their overall industry. The application claims to maintain user identities untraceable and confirms that the registered members work for the company via their work email.

The Blind App has made headlines several times, most notably when its anonymous polls make the candid thoughts of workers from various companies visible. Professionals also use the app for casual conversations regarding issues like salary. Its app listings on Google Play and the iOS App Store indicate that it has employees from more than 83,000 companies.

Blind is being used all around the world and is affecting companies’ decisions by providing executives with information on employees’ worries.

Through the app’s polls and discussions, employees from a range of organizations have shared their opinions on problems at work, including the app’s polls and discussions, employees from a range of organizations have shared their opinions on problems at work, including Uber’s claims of sexual harassment, Google memo, and the working conditions and issues at Amazon. Recently, Meta’s decision to potentially lay off 12,000 workers at Facebook was revealed by the employees through the Blind app.

History

Sunguk Moon, CEO, and co-founder of Blind revealed that after beginning his career in 2009 at the South Korean search company Naver, he had inspiration by the app. He saw there that employees engaged in open conversation among themselves in a private chat room on the company intranet.

A few years later, Naver closed the board because staff began discussing important and delicate subjects. Moon noted, “Several years later, Naver shut down the board because employees started talking about critical and sensitive issues,” Moon said. “I was really disappointed by that (decision) so I thought I should make an anonymous chat board for company workers as a third party.”

Since its launch in 2013, Blind has gained users from over3,000 companies. On Blind, there are around 40,000 Microsoft professionals, 20,000 Amazon professionals, and 10,000 Google professionals. Each company has a fairly high level of our penetration, and the majority of the company employees are regular users.

Blind declined to reveal the total number of users. However, one in five Uber employees uses the app. Additionally, one cannot just create a phony LinkedIn profile to use the app. A user’s company’s official email-id is linked to all sign-ups, and this email address is required for sign-up verification. However, due to the company’s patented technology, users remain anonymous to both the community and the app’s developers.

Founder & CEO: Sunguk Moon

Sunguk Moon is the Founder and CEO of Blind. Moon served as a founder or early-stage employee for three companies before Blind. One of them was Wingbus, a 2005-founded travel review, and booking website that Naver acquired in 2009. He studied UI/Graphics design as his major in college, however after three years, he mainly held positions in product management.

Naver was the first organization in Korea to utilize Blind. For the purpose of acquiring the initial seed users, Moon contacted some of his old Naver coworkers. Ticket Monster, a company Moon had previously worked for, was Blind’s second target.

Over the past two years, Blind has received several press mentions including in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch. It has acted as a reliable source of information for thousands of employees.