Japan

“Cause famously, Akio Morita's goal with Sony was to transform made in Japan on a product from, oh, this is of low quality to, oh, this is of high quality.”

“They are the second largest Japanese company by market cap behind only Toyota.”

“47% of Tokyo citizens are homeless at this point. The per capita income in the country the next year in 1946, the first year after the war is 17 dollars.”

“Sony bank came out in 2001 as a web only consumer bank in Japan. So it's kind of the first neobank.”

“The GDP per capita in Japan in 1946 was 17 dollars. Not 17,000 dollars, it was 17 dollars.”

“In the Netherlands, in Japan, and in Saudi Arabia, it comes to light that Lockheed employees and contractors are paying bribes to political officials to win contracts. This actually brings down the Japanese Prime Minister at the time.”

“Today, the company is called Sojits. Today, it is still a forty billion dollar revenue company. Back then, in 1971, it was a one hundred billion dollar annual revenue company, and it was, I think, the sixth largest Japanese trading company.”

“The interest rates in Japan were half a percent per year for 10 years. And these trading companies were really entrenched old companies, and they had all these cheap copper mines and rubber plantations, and so you could borrow for 10 years ahead all the money,…”

“And by the next year, in 1979, half of Microsoft's revenue is coming from Japan, which is wild.”

“The industrial structure in India, at least to date, seems to be more like South Korea or Japan, the big conglomerates.”