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▶︎ AMA Podcast (S-02, E-24) with Tim Romero, a Tokyo-based innovator, author, entrepreneur, and host of the Disrupting Japan podcast
What happens when you come to Japan hoping to become a rock star, but end up becoming one of the most recognizable voices in Tokyo’s startup community?
That’s the unlikely story of Tim Romero, who is, by the way, still very much of a “rock star” (intentional use of quotation marks).
Who is he?
Tim arrived in Japan in the late 1980s after being signed by a Japanese record company. His music career didn’t work out, but Japan did. Since then, he has founded and sold companies, invested in startups, worked inside major Japanese corporations, and become a leading chronicler of Japan’s…
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