Japan

“Japanese are great at paying for their products. They do, you know, they pay more than many other people in the, in, in the world”

“I would say in terms of location, if you're talking about Asia, you probably want to go somewhere where there's a good startup community and support environment. So Hong Kong, Singapore's very good. Japan's also well developed.”

“You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.”

“Korea, Japan, China, the US, those are the four markets that can support a billion dollar gain in a year.”

“The U.S. Spends about 18% of GDP on healthcare. You know, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, other rich countries in the world spend maybe 10, 11% on healthcare, and those countries, by the way, tend to not have single-payer systems either.”

“If we became merely as efficient as, say, Switzerland is, or Germany is, or Japan is in delivering healthcare, we would save a trillion dollars a year In the US.”

“Japan and Europe, for example, have been trying to accomplish two percent inflation for years, and they can't make it happen.”

“Japan went from one of our slowest growing countries to one of our fastest growing countries. Shortly after that, we surpassed our local competitor in Japan.”

“You know, Japan has been a very interesting market for us. I've always thought that that is a market in which, you know, snap would really take off because there are certain elements to it. It's very visual. It's, you know, it's playful. The lenses that we off…”

“It's had the best apart from maybe Japan, yes.”

“It's a joke, but not without some element of truth to say that Europe's a museum, Japan's a nursing home, China's a jail, and Bitcoin's an experiment.”

“The average revenue per year From pachinko is larger than the Japanese auto industry, which is several hundred billion dollars a year, right?”

“That number for Facebook back in the day varied wildly by country. Like in Japan it was like six, and in Indonesia it was a 106 or something bonkers.”

“Our growth in Japan was for a couple of years higher than in the US.”

“Where it did break is we underestimated that effort in Japan, because in Japan, only one percent of Japanese prospects were getting found by our English content.”

“Back in end of 2021, We felt a little bit worried about the market. We shut down Germany and Japan. We cut a 102 hundred million out of our budget before the year even started.”

“Japan decided to build a two nanometer fab. When I was there last, they were showing off these two nanometer wafers that they produced. Now, the yield's not where it needs to be. This is not production grade, but they built a two nanometer fab, and they are pr…”

“They've allocated sixty five billion dollars for AI.”

“I remember when Facebook had to go into Japan, Japanese cultural norms were that all the Japanese social networks back then were incognito. You couldn't, for some reason, maybe saving face or something. You could not share your real name or your photo. So ever…”