Japan

“I tell people all the time, women, minorities, go do an international assignment. You will actually have a edge above people who have not been minorities and experienced being minorities in a new culture.”

“Almost all of them had gone and done an international assignment. But more than that, A good chunk of them, a high percentage, had actually gone to Japan. And I thought, that's not obvious. Japan was probably our smallest marketplace.”

“Japan was sort of like the hub at the time to appeal to the Asian market, and Germany was sort of the hub to appeal to the European market, and then obviously North America.”

“When you look at the companies that are the longest running companies on earth, A majority of them are in Japan, B, they're over a thousand years old, and they're run in a very specific way.”

“The UK has an AI safety Institute. The U S is an AI safety Institute. It looks like, you know, Japan and Korea are going to add AI safety institutes all in the mission of ensuring that there's proper test and evaluation of these AI systems.”

“In June of 98 you know, there was an economic issue in Japan. The company hit the wall. And, you know, we had to have a very significant layoff”

“On bags, in Japan, they spent At the time, six times as much as the average American spent.”

“I went after the young female professional who Was looking to be emancipated, not get married right away, but travel, be independent, break the glass ceiling, and I was able to offer her a bag at 40,000 yen while the European competitors were a 100,000 yen, an…”