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We've always looked at venture capital as a product, and that's why we've built our own tools.
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We can't give you success. What VCs can do is increase the speed and the scale of that success.
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We're looking for the next Toyotas or the Sonys in Japan.
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Probably 80 to 90% of the investments that we make kind of fall into this overarching why Japan theme.
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There's no Y Combinator of Japan, there's no Andreessen Horowitz of Japan, no Founders Fund of Japan.