While they may be held back by Japan’s insular culture, that very weakness is also a moat.
Recruit Is Japan’s Top Contender for Global Internet Domination
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#12Their business idea seem original: put yourself between customers and services.
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#13I still find it very difficult to trust Bloomberg after “The Big Hack” was widely refuted without a retraction. Now whenever I read a Bloomberg puff peice like this, I’m wondering who’s agenda they’re serving. Who’s got all the Recruit stock that wants to see it rise? How much of the article is twisted to paint this company in a positive light? They’re not a trustworthy publication anymore.
I was just thinking about that article the other day - do we know that a retraction was needed? I saw all the refutation but never saw Bloomberg back down, and honestly I'm not sure how these things normally work. I guess I'm just wondering why you're so confident Bloomberg was serving an agenda?
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#14The #1 largest market for GitHub is the US. The second largest group of users is from Japan. I'm surprised there aren't more startups from Japan. The people are tech savvy and the economic malaise exceeding 20 years should be pushing people towards entrepreneurship and risk taking.
Why be an entrepreneur when there’s so much social glory in being a salaryman?
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#15The #1 largest market for GitHub is the US. The second largest group of users is from Japan. I'm surprised there aren't more startups from Japan. The people are tech savvy and the economic malaise exceeding 20 years should be pushing people towards entrepreneurship and risk taking.
From what I know, Japanese companies are pretty resistant to using new software technology. (Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong).
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#16I still find it very difficult to trust Bloomberg after “The Big Hack” was widely refuted without a retraction. Now whenever I read a Bloomberg puff peice like this, I’m wondering who’s agenda they’re serving. Who’s got all the Recruit stock that wants to see it rise? How much of the article is twisted to paint this company in a positive light? They’re not a trustworthy publication anymore.
Hey, folks thought Echelon was a joke in the 90's until Snowden showed that Echelon is child's play.
The Big Hack might be true or not, but it's not far fetched. There might be more at play here. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1As&feature=youtu.be
Re: Recruit Is Japan’s Top Contender for Global Internet Domination
#17I still find it very difficult to trust Bloomberg after “The Big Hack” was widely refuted without a retraction. Now whenever I read a Bloomberg puff peice like this, I’m wondering who’s agenda they’re serving. Who’s got all the Recruit stock that wants to see it rise? How much of the article is twisted to paint this company in a positive light? They’re not a trustworthy publication anymore.
Hey, folks thought Echelon was a joke in the 90's until Snowden showed that Echelon is child's play. The Big Hack might be true or not, but it's not far fetched. There might be more at play here. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1As&feature=youtu.be
The issue is that Bloomberg couldn’t provide any real evidence for their claims when pressed.
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#18I remember Recruit developed one of Nintendo's first online platforms, Randnet [1]. After trying to pioneer in this space on each of their early consoles, only to see it fail to gain traction with their customers, Nintendo let online gameplay and networking take a back seat. Microsoft and Sony (and Sega) jumped on board that train with the very next generation of consoles and became leaders in online console gaming.
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#19The #1 largest market for GitHub is the US. The second largest group of users is from Japan. I'm surprised there aren't more startups from Japan. The people are tech savvy and the economic malaise exceeding 20 years should be pushing people towards entrepreneurship and risk taking.
According to Github’s own stats, Japan is eighth in both contributions and sign-ups.
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#20I recently signed up to recruit to make a dinner reservation in Japan. They used a lot of dark patterns for their email marketing. Bombarding me with multiple different newsletters I didn't sign up for and I had to cancel every single one of them separately. And nearly a week delay after sign-off. One of the worst non-spam marketing I had to deal with in the last years.
This is common practice in Japan. We desperately need our own anti spam legislation.