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Nick Kim

Founder & CEO

UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering · ex-Google, ex-YouTube

Multimodal training data, licensing and applied AI products.

Nick Kim founded Gargantua in 2023 to work at the intersection of specialist data and applied AI. His work spans dataset design, video acquisition and licensing, and annotation methodologies developed with client research teams for video-language and multimodal models.

Previously, Nick held engineering and product roles at Google and YouTube. He helped expand YouTube Music and Premium to more than 30 countries, built integration infrastructure for YouTube TV and its distribution partners, and launched YouTube Shopping. That work brought together engineering, content rights, and commercial partnerships across international markets.

At Gargantua, he connects clients’ research and product objectives with the data and systems needed to pursue them. Nick holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley and is based in Seoul.

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