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3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2024 by Uri Levine · said 26 times in 16 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about Japan, oldest first

Jun 9, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levine: Waze's crowdsourcing model will never work in Japan
“Japan is a very good example where it didn't work, and it will never work, right?”
Uri Levine Jun 9, 2024 ▶ 24:46 Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine
Mar 6, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zhao: Notion co-founders lived cash-flow positive in Japan by subleasing SF offices
“And we sublease our apartment and office, we're actually making money living in Japan. And then San Francisco.”
Ivan Zhao Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 18:01 Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal
Aug 2, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Japanese Twitter users tweeted 6x more often than Western users
“People in Japan tweeted six times more often than people in western markets, and it was largely when we spoke to them because kanji lets you say heaps more in the same number of characters than you know, a romance language did.”
Tom Verrilli Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 1:11:41 This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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