Japan

“Say Japan or South Korea, they're not behind a firewall, and those US companies haven't done any better there.”

“One of these eyeopening experiences I had was to find out at one point in the nineties that Excel was the preferred word processor in Japan because the documents in Japan are all highly structured.”

“Because there are really great companies in Japan at valuations that are much more attractive than what we're paid for here.”

“The US and Canada put together are 47% of our daily active users, roughly 30% in Europe, 20% in Asia. Japan was our number two country, both for paid seats and daily active users, until it got dislodged by the UK and Germany.”

“If you read these things like in Japan, adult diapers are now outselling children's diapers.”

“Today, they announced it just got released in Japan, the game for the first time, and McDonald's partnered with them, and their gym's now at nearly 3000 stores in Japan.”

“In the late eighties, Japan tried to organize their entire industrial policy around creating artificial intelligence. The fifth generation. The fifth generation supercomputer. Built around expert systems, optimized all the way down into silicon, so you can ima…”

“Like in Japan, they have this whole history of Shintoism and treating objects as things with souls, and so it's, I think, easier for them to view robots as just another thing with a soul, and they don't have this contradiction inside themselves of, oh, I'm tre…”

“There's this company in Japan that has this You know, standard assembly line for manufacturing, and like a lot of companies, they have people working alongside the robots on the assembly line, and so the people will come in and they do these aerobics in the mo…”

“Japan, it was more than half of the office business.”

“If Taiwan falls, it will make our ability to fulfill our treaty commitments with Japan and the Philippines, Impossible.”

“It really takes a government, which is why Nationally, you know, like Japan and France and even, like I said, our regulated utilities in the United States, a lot of our nuclear power plants are, you know, government supported. It's very, very hard to take on t…”

“At that point in time, it had started costing Japan close to half a billion dollars in people losing their life savings To the scam.”

“Japan also kind of had this deal to, you know, their chip sack version. And they're off to the races. They built the fab.”

“Hurting Japan and Europe more than we hurt ourselves, but hurting both of us actually just lets China win. So it doesn't seem like a credible threat to me.”

“We've already seen TSMC as one example, in fact, say that they are slowing investment in Japan to invest More quickly in the U S”

“And actually, all the things you just cited, like the Galapagos Syndrome and the making things only for the Japan market, Not being welcome to foreign direct investment were probably the reasons why Japan is not the leader in electronics today.”

“We have a KV. We invested in a sovereign AI company in Japan called Sakano.”

“This is why Japan is a leader in robotics because they can't hire anybody.”

“The Koreans are gonna play here. For sure the Japanese are gonna play and then you know, the Chinese in a major way as well, and, you know, they have their own, you know, native chip ecosystem that they're building up, and so they're going to be many choices o…”

“So, so we started in Japan and like as a test market, and it's essentially exactly what we just discussed. It is if you verified with an orb, you get a little batch that You know, signals to other people that you are in fact a human.”

“They just went from zero percent of GDP to three percent of GDP spent on defense.”

“So as Japan thinks about building a capable military, in order to deter aggression in the region, it is looking to partner with new firms building autonomous ships, building AI for an integrated battle space. And they want to build with us.”

“We run self-driving trucks right now in Japan. They carry commercial loads. They're, you know, they're safety drivers there, but they're, Autonomously running. And, but you won't know that because the brand is Isuzu.”