Scott Oki Lecture

Scott Oki

Scott Oki is the famous ex-Microsoft successor here in Seattle and he now runs the non-profit Oki Foundation.

I went to his lecture and reconfirmed what is important for the Entrepreneurship; e.g. PASSION. If you found what you like to do through your life,  you must be happy.


前マイクロソフトの上級副社長まで勤め、ここシアトルでは著名な慈善実業家であるスコット・オキ。彼は今、Oki FoundationというNPOに携わっています。

その彼の講演に出かけ、起業家に大切なものを再確認できました。

それは「情熱」。人生を通してやりたいことを見つけた人は、幸せに違いない。

Hospitality and Craftmanship - おもてなしと職人魂

Why a trade?

We want to buy from other countries what we do not have in own country or even we have one, we want them because they are better.

What we want from others.  Basically, we love them.  They are based on their own culture.

In Japan, there are a lot of good traditional and modern crafts.  The demand in Japan has been decreased due to the life style change.  If so, let's make the means of escape in overseas.

Over hundreds and thousands years of the history, Japan has variable tourism resources. And its nature is the gift.  Nobody can copy them just with money.

It is also based on the Hospitality of the Japanese Mind.

In 2010, the visitors to Japan is No. 30 in the world ranking.  Even if it was influenced by the earthquake and nuclear power plant accident, its number seems to be very low vs. No. 3 in GDP.

They must be based on the DNA and its own culture. Then, Japan can stand up and make the relationship with other countries improve.  It might be the way of other Asian countries in the future.

Japan should respect and review their own culture; the Japanese tourism resources and crafts

Facebook IPO

So, how many people think their IPO value is reasonable?  I am not.  Something is wrong here.

Time to stop dancing on the stage of illusion, doesn't it?

I remember to have ready the article that Zuckerberg commented that he would start a new company in Boston again, not in Silicon Valley if he would start another new one.  It tells us that he might already feel that something was wrong when he was led to go to his company IPO from Silicon Valley.

It is time for the USA to go back the real business; made in USA and produce something to deliver to customers' hands.