Tokyo

“Before the earthquake and the fire, the subsequent fires that come after the earthquake, that is, the shop employed 16 repairmen. After, only two were left. Honda was one of the two.”

“Like in some areas, it is like 200,000 dollars, like per megawatt, with a service called FCR in Tokyo.”

“You know, we are planning to start operating in London and in Tokyo this year.”

“Tokyo, gigantic city. Bigger than the city you and I are in right now in New York. Very affordable housing, relatively. Because they build. They build and build and build and build.”

“They're going to be opening a bunch more cities in the U.S. Next year. They're launching in Tokyo, their first international city, slowly and then all at once.”

“In Tokyo or you go to Japan and it's because they actually, most of the home builders are home manufacturers. And things are very standard. The cost of a new home build is like not that expensive.”

“But last March March, 20, 24, we established a physical presence in Japan. We now have an office in Tokyo you know, not only to support our LPs and our corporate strategic partners that are based in Japan, but also to explore that market for net new investment…”

“This place was so busy. We were playing with another like, 750 people in line. There was like five to six hour wait line just to get into the bakery at opening. It was just insane.”

“Do you know how many applications he got to this? Four, 400 women applied to go with them.”

“When rockets are reliable, you can go anywhere in the world in 45 minutes. Like, we could commute to Tokyo.”

“If you look at the world of investing in Tokyo today, you know, it's dominated by the platform hedge funds.”

“And I think after the war, 48% of Tokyo was homeless. Like, half the population's homes had been destroyed.”

“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.”

“Back in 2013, when Tokyo was putting together its bid for the Olympics, it originally forecasted around 7.4 billion dollars of cost for the games. But today, officials say the true budget is somewhere around 15.4 billion, and government auditors are actually p…”

“Actually, our first store wasn't in New York City. It was in Sinjuku Station in Tokyo, Japan.”

“I think one thing that we did a really good job of early on, and it was a strategic decision, but it was building a hub and spoke type model where we knew we were going to be a global company from day one because we were born Right. Started in Romania and expa…”

“By the way, that was city by city, so the fact that you had sufficient Restaurants in San Francisco meant nothing in Miami, so you started again in Miami, and in Tokyo, and in, you know, in Munich, and it's a slow roll-up.”

“So we have offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil Melbourne, Australia, Tokyo, Japan, and UK.”

“Tokyo has over the last couple of decades, been an improbable, well, not especially improbable, but has been such an enormous economic success story. And, you know, you had the boom and the bust and the supposed stagnation of Japan in the kind of early ninetie…”

“In 10 years, when you wanna go to Tokyo, you're gonna get there in, like, six hours.”

“They explored telex communication with, they set up telex stations for adults on the occasion of another project In, ah, Ahmedabad, India, in Stockholm, in Tokyo, in New York, in LA, and they were Having people ask questions about what they thought the future …”