Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
Hosted by Tim Romero · Tim Romero
4.9from 68 ratings
- 269
- Episodes
- 45
- Transcribed
- 68
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 50K
- YouTube views
About Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
Disrupting Japan gives you candid, in-depth insights from the startup founders, VCs, and leaders who are reshaping Japan.
- Publisher
- Tim Romero
- Category
- business · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Sept 2014
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
45 of 269 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Japan’s CVCs can teach the rest of us
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Japanese startup killing the nasal swab
17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Using cold storage to lower energy prices in Japan
Inside a recent episode
What Japan’s CVCs can teach the rest of us
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] One thing that I mentioned earlier was the class with Jasper Sorensen between exploitation and exploration. Corporate VCs can have an exploitation mission and be very well designed and be very valuable to a company. And corporate VC like TDK Ventures can have an exploration mission and design that way. In the case of TDK, we want to be the future eyes of TDK so that they can see around the corner what's going to be four years from now. Because when you talk about material science, innovation, it takes four years to develop it. When I think about a Japanese company, you first need to decide why you want a corporate VC and whether a corporate VC even makes sense. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Nicolas Sauvage
- Sho Okiyama
- Takehito Nishiyama
- Toru Ichihashi
- Junghee Ryu
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 50,324
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 46 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 22 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 95
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Tim Romero host the show. Published by Tim Romero.
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