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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone, my guest today is Tara Fukuyama.

He's the co-founder and CEO of a company called Fond.com.

Which he founded back in 2012 and again, now serves as the CEO. He is born and raised in Tokyo

and is a Ycombin undergraduates and part of the first Japanese team ever to be admitted to the program.

He studied law at Kyo University in Tokyo and was named one of Business Insider Silicon Valley

100, the coolest people in tech right now.

Tara, are you ready to take us to the top? Yep, super excited to be here. What the hell does coolest

people in tech mean? I have no idea. My face was next to Elon Musk and Marisa Mayer, and then

the only thing I know is my parents were excited to see that. What did they think when you said, I'm going to this thing called Y Combinator in the U.S.?

Yeah, they had no idea what it was.

The first time they realized was that when I was a newspaper in Japan, they're like, oh my God, something's happening.

So I know as long as, you know, they're happy, then I think things are fine.

How old are they?

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