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Captain Oyu’s Third Startup Is Betting Japan’s Future on Wild Imagination
After building Mamari, selling PRISM Project to Sony and circling the globe, Shunsuke “Captain” Oyu is turning hand-drawn avatars into a passport for creators. His wager is simple: Japan’s next global export may be a self you can invent.
Xe Iaso
Xe Iaso is a technical educator, open source founder, conference speaker, Twitch streamer, and VTuber based in Ottawa, Canada. The CEO of Techaro and creator of Anubis - the open-source anti-AI-scraper tool now protecting GNOME, FFmpeg, Linux kernel archives, and UNESCO - Xe built a cult following of 400+ blog posts that mix deep systems engineering with irreverent philosophy. Known for pioneering developer relations teams at Tailscale and Fly.io, and for coining their own title 'Archmage of Infrastructure,' Xe is the rare technologist who turned shitposting into a career strategy and made it work.