How startups suddenly became “cool” in Japan (feat. Shin Takamiya of Globis Capital) | E2237

Younger generation is becoming entrepreneurs and, you know, startups are becoming cool. So the traditional kind of stereotype image of Japanese wearing suits, being what we call salaryman Yes. You know, lifetime employment, that's totally gone right now. Totally gone for young people. For young people. Yep. They still have it as an option. Yes. But they're now it's number two on the list, number three on the list of possibility? Yeah. Maybe. So another kind of a showcase, it's like a joke that I always tell. Number one job sought sought after McKinsey is now startups. McKinsey used to be number one? You know, it's one of the prestige, you know Yes. Jobs you can get. And, you know, typically, people might go join a big Japanese blue chip company to become one of the, you know, top management or something like that. That was high status. Yes. And now high status has shifted for young people to being a founder or even joining associated with startups. Yes. Exactly. This Week in Startups is brought to you by Uber AI Solutions, your trusted partner to get AI to work in the real world. Book a demo with them today at uber.com/twist. Deal. Foundership faster on deal. Set up payroll for any country in minutes and get back to building. Visit deal.com/twist to learn more. Circle.so. Circle gives you everything you need to build and scale your community led business. Twist listeners get $1,000 off Circle's professional plan at circle.so/twist. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. I'm your host, Jason Calacanis. As you know, we have a program called Founder University. Founder University is a twelve week course for people in year zero of startups. People who apply for funding from our venture firm but are too soon for funding. So we said, wow, all this incredible energy, everybody emailing us, applying for funding, literally over 10,000 people a year. How do we capture that energy and help founders solve the world's biggest problems or solve the problems that are important to them, maybe US consumers? So we created this twelve week course where we go over all the basics, how to set up a cap table, how to get product market fit, how to do go to market strategies, how to find a cofounder, how to present your product, how to understand your total addressable market, maybe find your ideal customer profile, just, design, UX, all of it. The founders typically understand about half of what we teach them. For different founders, that 50% is different. Some of them are awesome at operations, but their design is terrible. But they're really good at go to market or they're absolutely extraordinary at recruiting talent, but they don't even know what the term ICP or customer acquisition cost. They don't they're not familiar with those, and that's okay. Because everybody becomes familiar with these techniques and these strategies over time. So we meet the founders where they are, …