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Yasukane Matsumoto and the value of an idle machine
A printing press between jobs. A software account nobody uses. Yasukane Matsumoto has built his career around the things businesses pay for and fail to put to work.
Tomonori Tsuji and the price you cannot Google
A shopping search engine sounds like a software problem. In Jakarta, Tomonori Tsuji built Pricebook around the people, shops and conversations that a search box could miss.
Kazuki Ohta and the Trouble with Being Useful to Everyone
Kazuki Ohta built tools that could analyze almost anything. His company found its footing when it chose a narrower job. Now the co-founder of Treasure AI is making another bet on who gets to use the machinery.
Ryohei Fujimaki
Ryohei Fujimaki is the founder and CEO of dotData, a Silicon Valley enterprise AI company that automates feature engineering and data science. A machine learning PhD from the University of Tokyo, he became the youngest research fellow in NEC's 119-year history at age 33 before spinning dotData out of NEC to commercialize automated feature discovery. He has raised roughly $75 million to make predictive analytics accessible to a broader range of business users.
Takeshi Homma
Takeshi (Ted) Homma is the founder and CEO of HOMMA Group, a Palo Alto smart-home designer, developer and builder he started in 2016. Descended from a Japanese family with fifteen generations in the building trades, he spent years at Sony and Rakuten before setting out to build what he calls a 'housing version of Tesla' - turnkey homes with proprietary, AI-driven technology woven into modern architecture. HOMMA has delivered pre-configured smart-home communities in Portland and proof-of-concept units in Boston, and partnered with a Mitsubishi Corporation subsidiary to scale the idea.