Japan, every mention
17 scenes · ← back to Japan
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Garry Tan 4Ed Baker 3Vidit Aatrey 2Craig Cannon 2Aadit Palicha 2Tim Hwang 1Patrick Moberg 1Michelle Kuo 1Laura Behrens Wu 1Gustaf Alströmer 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:59 Blake Scholl Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, started the company in the 19 sixties on a chance trip to Japan when he fell in love with Japanese style running shoes, and Nike got their start importing Japanese running shoes to America.
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:45 Boris Cherny I was living in rural Japan and I was opening up Hacker News every morning
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:10 Aadit Palicha Like if you've been to seven 11 in Japan, for example, or even in the US, you have all that, uh, Amazing in Japan. 2 times in the scene
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:31 Craig Cannon Yeah, I remember, uh, one time I was at a post office in Japan, and they had a bunch of different grade glasses tied to the stand where you filled it out.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:54 Gustaf Alströmer People in Japan are so different.
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:16 Vidit Aatrey But what happened back in 2015, like three years out of college, I was working with Inmobi here, Sanji was working with Sony in Japan. 2 times in the scene
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
David Zeevi on Personalized Nutrition Based on Your Gut Microbiome · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:26 David Zeevi Uh, it was, um, Japan, Italy, the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia.
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Patrick Moberg So the year before, I went on this trip to Japan, and sort of, uh, went to this city, Matsumoto, where they were in a retrospective of this artist's work, and it's all, like, dot-based.
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:11 Avni Patel Thompson So, you know, India one a month, China, Japan, and instead of doing what we call saris and samosas or like, you know, sushi and samurai is very like stereotypical stuff.
Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:40 Michelle Kuo They ended up getting infrared cameras from a Japanese supplier, and so at one part of the performance was turning all the lights off,
Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:19 Laura Behrens Wu He had to write an email, write a letter to his manufacturer in Japan.
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:20 Craig Cannon And then they go home, you know, whatever to like Japan and they're like, okay.
- ▶ 31:07 Tim Hwang Um, I think we might've talked about it earlier, but like, uh, we have this really crazy story where it turned out that there was this cucumber farm in Japan that was using machine learning to build like a really cheap machine learning,…