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Shintaro Yamada
Japanese businessman
Shintaro Yamada (Japanese: 山田 進太郎, Hepburn: Yamada Shintarō; born 1977/1978) is a Japanese businessman, and the founder, CEO and one-third owner of the online marketplace Mercari.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Shintaro Yamada (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Sep 21, 1977.1
Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedWaseda University3
Yamada earned a degree in mathematics from Waseda University.
From Wikipedia’s article on Shintaro Yamada (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career
Occupation: businessperson.5
His first job after college was as an intern at Rakuten, then a little-known e-commerce company, for whom he developed an auction website.
In 2001, he founded Unoh, a games company, that was bought by Zynga in 2010.
Yamada became a billionaire following Mercari's IPO in June 2018.
From Wikipedia’s article on Shintaro Yamada (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Personal life
- CitizenshipJapan6
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataShintaro Yamada on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaShintaro Yamada on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataShintaro Yamada: X, on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataMercari, Founder
- 10Wikimedia CommonsShintaro Yamada photo by 経済産業省, CC BY 4.0