Japan, every mention
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every year anyone Chris Degnan 2Yuhki Yamashita 1Sam Schillace 1Rick Song 1Qasar Younis 1Guillermo Rauch 1Ashley Kramer 1Ankur Goyal 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- ▶ 35:27 Chris Degnan I was in Japan and I was at a, one of the car companies and they had tried Snowflake. 2 times in the scene
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 58:08 Qasar Younis Also like, it's not random that I lived in Japan.
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 38:14 Ankur Goyal Like, I remember, I'll get to the end of the story in a second, but there's a bunch of stuff about users in Japan that the folks at Notion ended up discovering because they were able to search for stuff that was very hard to before.
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- ▶ 1:01:53 Yuhki Yamashita You know, we have a big EDU investment right now, and like, I was recently, uh, watching third graders in Japan use FigJam.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 30:13 Sam Schillace I was in Japan recently, and they've got the entire country very reliably in their database.
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 41:39 Guillermo Rauch I had a customer in Japan recently giving me back a presentation of how many engineering resources they were able to redirect from platform engineering to product engineering and data science, because they were like, okay, we've freed up…
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
- ▶ 1:07:55 Ashley Kramer I'll be in Japan probably early next year for the same reason as far as maturity.