Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato

Everybody, welcome to This Week in Startups. We're about to take you to Osaka, Japan, for Jason's live chat with Yuki Shirado. He's the managing director of the Techstars. Tokyo accelerator. They're gonna have a fascinating deep dive on what's going on in the Japan startup scene. Then Jason and Yuki hear some pitches from some amazing Japanese founders. Thanks to Jetro for powering this awesome event. Enjoy the show. How's everybody doing? Oh, now it's good. Now it's good. Okay. This is a very beautiful room. If only it had a good view.

Wow. What a view. Incredible. Um it's great to be back in Japan. I have been coming every Six months now.

Uh I am very lucky because um Uh Jetro. Has to be Last year. Hey, would you uh come to Japan?

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