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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator Jul 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator May 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:33 Garry Tan And, uh, not only that, like, there's this aspect of kaizen, you know, this, um, this manufacturing technique that created really, really good cars for Japan in the nineties. 2 times in the scene

How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator Apr 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Dec 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jun 26, 2019 · 1 mention

Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator May 22, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 16, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:25 Cindy Mi So the value for teachers then is they are willing to teach a global student audience, but, uh, unless they move to China or Asia or like Japan, they can't do this.

David Zeevi on Personalized Nutrition Based on Your Gut Microbiome · Y Combinator Aug 22, 2018 · 1 mention

Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator Apr 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 20, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 4, 2017 · 1 mention

Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator Jun 23, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 26:05 Ed Baker Uh, basically the funnel and the viral, um, metrics by region, and we noticed that Japan was our least viral country, and when we dug in and tried to understand why, we saw that very few new users were actually sending invites to any of… 3 times in the scene

At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator Jun 16, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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,…
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