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Kathy Matsui

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“All right, this has been an amazing episode of This Week in Startups with Kathy Matsui from MPower Partners. What a delight to talk to you for an hour and 15 minutes.”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like secret factory, and I saw Optimus 3 and I saw maybe there was a large number of people working there at a Sunday at 10 a.m. It was bonkers. And what those robots are going to do attach to LLMs, they're going to be able to do surgery. They're going to be able to sort garbage. They're going to be able to work in any factory. It's going to be pretty wild in five or ten years. And Amazon is already, I think Amazon and America will be the first singularity company, which is to say the number of robots at Amazon. Right now, I think it's half the number of humans. I think they have 1.5 million humans and 600,000 robots. So it's maybe a third. I think it's going to be in five years. They'll have two or three million robots and maybe the same number of humans. It's a very interesting moment in time.”
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“Where we have in America sometimes, what is it called? A mania or contagion where people fear foreigners, which is kind of crazy considering the whole, the only people who were there originally were the Native Americans, a very small number of Native Americans. But I do think the robots and job displacement will be very real. I think what you're doing, what Tessa is doing, I went to see the Optimus III maybe three weeks ago on Sunday. I went with Elon. He showed me the...”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe it's hard now. It's a very interesting moment in time. I'm very embarrassed for America. What we're doing with the ICE agents. You may have seen very violent deportations. I think it's. Going to be very sad for America ultimately. It reminds me in some ways of what happened in the Japanese internment, which I think was before your parents' time.”
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“Family immigrated to the five points in Manhattan like when it was like gangs of New York we were there early it's heartbreaking for me that we don't have this immigrant culture anymore but I also understand reasonably that you it has to be orderly so maybe it's 90% consensus we shouldn't have an open border but it's maybe 50-50 should we let people in on a regular basis the great irony of it is the Republicans were the ones who were driving it for most of my lifetime They wanted to have an open border with Canada and Mexico, NAFTA, and that people who are Mexican and Canadian could, like the EU, just come in and out of those countries and work. You probably remember this in the 80s. And they were like, yeah, Mexican people coming here to work is great. They come, they work in the fields, and then they go home to their families after a season of working. They need work. We need people to pick strawberries and orchids, perhaps. Maybe you had some folks working there.”
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“Young people are having a hard time finding jobs. So the theory in America is because we had too much immigration and there might be as many as 30 million or 40 million illegal immigrants in America, we don't know, but probably 20 is a good number to start with. If we don't let more in and we on the margins deport a little bit, maybe that will blunt the unemployment and the employment displacement we're going to see from robotaxis and other human robots. So it is a very big topic in America because remember America was based, Statue of Liberty has a big speech on it, Bring us, you're tired, you're hungry, you're poor masses yearning for freedom. It's a little heartbreaking for me. I'm seventh generation Irish in America, third generation Greek and Swedish, on my father's side. So I've been there for a while.”
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“Was not a sustainable number of people, just like some countries in Europe realized you can only have so many people at a certain pace in order to have them assimilate to the society without causing chaos. They're on a pace to do exactly the number of deportations as Obama did. This is like maybe 400,000 a year. So it'll be fine. And it's mostly people who have DUIs drinking while driving and doing felonies, et cetera. Although it's a little bit more dramatic than it needs to be, it won't be 20 million people in America. It will wind up being 1.5 million, 2 million, which is very similar to Obama and other presidents. It's always 300 or 400 people get to 300 or 400,000 people get deported every year. We have the lowest unemployment of my lifetime. It's 4.6% now. It was as low as 4.4. When unemployment is that low, it actually is not good for the economy. Businesses have a hard time finding people. However, because of AI and robotaxis and all this stuff,”
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“Well, I've had a number of conversations with JD Vance about it publicly, and when I challenged him on that at the All-In Summit, I said, are you going to deport 20 million people like sometimes Donald Trump says? Sometimes he says something different. I asked President Trump on the podcast, what about people getting their degrees? He said, we will put a green card very famously attached to their degree. The people in the MAGA group said Donald Trump's a sellout, oh my God, this is terrible. President Trump has betrayed us. And so then they went back on it. But pragmatism, I think, is the word that all leaders wind up having to face. Pragmatically, we could not sustain what Biden was doing for some crazy reason. He decided to open the border. Some people say it was to boost the economy. Some people said it was to get votes. Some people said it was because he was in cognitive decline. Whatever the reason is.”
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“So, what's your thoughts on the immigration policy we're seeing in the United States, Japan, many places, maybe a more reasonable immigration policy, maybe even point-based system like I think you have point-based system here?”
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“Because they don't want to flood the pipes. They don't feel the pipes can keep up with it yet. New York was like that as well. The density makes it impossible. California, very easy to have it. Great”
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“Post it much faster. Paper food waste as opposed to putting it down the drain and using a compactor. Do you have compactor? Do you have”
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“In America, I got pitched on a couple of desktop units that you keep in your kitchen And you put the food in it, and it has some sort of heating element or whatever, and it”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's an incredibly boring mission, but it matters to you. And that's what's important as a founder because you care about it. And you wake up every day obsessed with it, I think. Yeah”
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“A little bit of fraud. But the other thing is you have a big mission, and it's one of the things I really like about a company because you could start with smart trash cans, but it could go anywhere. You know, Sony in Akihabaro, when they started, they were doing, I believe it was either rice cookers or heating blankets were the first product. And I became obsessed with Sony at the time because I worked for Sony Music. Was one of my first jobs in America, and I just got obsessed with the founder. They just wanted to make things that help people make their lives better. Didn't matter what it was. And yours is like a very noble mission, I think, if you wind up starting here, but you wind up running the plants as well or the trucks or the robots that go sort it. Like there's many different places for you to take this mission.”
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“They pour it all together. And we know this scam. We have a big corruption problem in America. We know this scam because people started putting air tags. Two things that were in the recycling bin, and then they track them, and they went to the furnaces to be burned. to sort it out the consumer side only to have the waste management companies dump stuff into the ocean they caught them doing that dumping it into furnaces It turns out in America the waste management system is slightly corrupt.”
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“Also, I think that you did something a lot of entrepreneurs don't do, which is instead of starting with the consumer, sometimes the people who have the least money to spend and you found somebody who acutely has the issue, like an airport has a lot of trash. And they have lots of people going through it, and train stations have tons of people going through it. So I think you found a really good ideal customer profile because if you can save them 10 minutes or $10 per trash can, it adds up because there's so many people going through. And so how does the technology work? Computer vision sees the...”
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“Had it Tiananmen Square, and you and I are of the age to remember it. Most of the people in the room do not. And that was teetering. There was a moment in time, isn't it interesting to think about that? There was a moment in time when we were 15 years old, was in 80. Where we were watching TV thinking, I wonder if it's going to be a complete civil war inside”
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“And now they find themselves in China realizing they're not the lowest. Cost goods producer. When you move up the stack, be careful what you wish for. Can you imagine if there was an economic downturn that was significant if 100 million Chinese workers were out of Jobs. I mean, when you have that number of people lose their jobs, civil unrest is a.”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they've got a very unique situation where they establish this incredible middle class, had this incredible boom building iPhones and any number of products for the rest of the world. And in some ways, they're a victim to that as well because India, Vietnam, other places. Behave good at manufacturing as well, and their hourly wages are a third or half”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Intensely for the past two years that America or China are going to win and that's it. There can only be one winner or can there be many winners? Can these two giants coexist or are they just on a collision course over Taiwan? How do you think about it?”
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“It's really important, I think, for Americans to understand this because recently there's been this Monroe doctrine, like sort of. Rehash, like, well, maybe we should just. APAC is not strategic for us. Maybe we should let China Rule their hemisphere, Middle East and EU can do what they want to do, and we'll just take the Americas. And I think it's a huge mistake because these countries have had such a long relationship. I actually think it's possible for, I think I'm optimistic about the relationship between America and China. How do you feel about it? Do you think in the AI race that we've been talking about so...”
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“Japan's number three or four economy still in the world, yeah, four? Yeah, India is now the most populous. What do you think about globally and geopolitically? Obviously, you have conflict in the Middle East and some instability in places, and then we have this very interesting moment in time here with China and the South China Sea and their relationship with Taiwan, America's relationship with China pretty contentious, North Korea sending. Missiles over Japan, and then Japan now maybe building, you know, may have to build a significant military. How do you think about all this?”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They want to be board members. They want to be the lead investor in around. So you watch Mubadala out of the UAE, out of Abu Dhabi, you watch the PIF, Sanabel, who we have a partnership with Sanabel to do Founding University there and here with JetRo. They are really thinking strategically and long term, just like Japan is.”
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“In private equity and venture capital is very high on the list. As you know, real estate, tourism, technology, renewable energies. And so when I started spending time there, and having spent time here, I just made a decision I want to build a bridge between these three locations. And I know the one here is just starting, but the one between the US and those countries is very strong now, very deep. They're not the dumb money at the table, like some of my contemporaries in Silicon Valley and in the US were like, oh, you just go there and grab a bunch of money. They're desperate to invest. Nope, educated at Stanford, educated at Harvard, educated at Oxford. And they come from these incredible legacy businesses that have been built over many generations. They don't just want to be LPs.”
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“They explained it to me in both of the countries, Saudi and in UAE, that they estimate they have 30 years left on fossil fuels. And after that, in some cases, there just might be a limited customer base as we get diffusion or... Small modular nuclear reactors, solar and batteries continue to grow, and renewables. So they outlined for me, here's the 11 businesses that we are very interested in.”
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“We're definitely applying a test. You liked to think about big picture things I could tell. You got a credible background having grown up in America and then living here now. There's a place between America and here that's really becoming prominent as well in the startup scene and the funding of it, the Middle East. I'm curious your take on UAE, Saudi, these incredible cultures where, again, it is based on trust and meetings and family and tradition, but now they're modernizing and they want to play a big role in technology, in business, in the future. They've all been educated in the West now, like yourself, but they return home and they're building these businesses. Have you spent time in the Middle East? And what do you think about the relationship that's brewing and developing between America and the Middle East? And I know India and the Middle East and also Japan.”
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“It had to do with would this mountain being restored here be of benefit to the community? Would I be respectful of this tiny little town outside of Niseco that nobody knows about where the houses are all empty and falling apart? But they really, the remaining people were really caring. And I was like, did they just string you along for four years or whatever? He's like, I really don't know, but it took me four years to build that truck. And”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Take over the mountain and license it or buy it. And they said, oh, okay, nodded. Took them four years. And it took him four years of just building trustees.”
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“Fascinating when I started coming skiing here right after COVID, I was looking at my ski app and I was like, where's the powder? Where's the powder? And I just kept seeing these Japanese names come up in my app at the top. And I looked at it and I said, it must be something wrong. There's too much powder. It doesn't make any sense. Like, how could they even maintain the mountain? And that's when I fell in love with skiing here. And I was talking to, I made friends with somebody who has a ski resort here, who's an American. And I said, you know, after having been to a ski resort a couple of times, we were sitting there. He's a fan of the pod. And I said, how did this all come about? He said, oh, I came here like 20 years ago. I fell in love with it. There were too many ski resorts. They were very local. They were for day trips or overnights. And there were a lot of kids. And then there were just too many of them. And now they were shut down in this one town, had this incredible mountain, but it was in complete disrepair. So I said, hey, I would like to.”
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“It's the opposite of the United States. In the United States, we do a business deal, and then we decide, should we have a relationship and be friends? And should we respect each other? Let's see what happens. Maybe if you screw me in this business deal, we won't be friends. Because remember.”
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“And they're clean and they're affordable and they're so respectful that why do they need Uber? How do we ever penetrate this market? They figured it out, but I don't think it was easy. And Uber Eats, I think, is doing okay So, but what should folks know coming here?”
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“He just was talking to TK and then eventually Dara, and I was like, the cabs here are so good. The cab drivers are wearing suits and have white gloves on.”
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“When an American company comes here, what is the best practice in your mind? What do they need to understand? I've been involved in a couple of them, Uber, which was quite humbling because I came here. I've been coming here since the late 90s. I remember post Uber.”
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“Lots of tactical issues. And then there's strategy, of course, but the tactics are so detailed. Yeah, but I would argue it's not.”
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“Very important. Now I get to come twice a year and I get to bring my whole family the other time when they're not in school. How do founders switch from and what is your best pitch to them to take on the world and to think like the founders of Sony thought, like the founders of Toyota thought, like the founders of Uniclo think?”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Welcome back to this week in startups. What a great guest to have Kathy Matsui is with me. She is a GP at a Japanese venture firm called Empower Partners. The founders in the room are a bit self-selecting for ambition, and this is our first pre-accelerator here. Really excited to launch it and spend more time. I'm going to be coming to Japan twice a year instead of just once. I would usually come just in January to do my 10 days in Naseko, where I usually do six or seven days in Naseko and then three days here going to eat food. Very important.”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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“And she said she was so just crestfallen, she thought maybe I should not be a founder. I'm not wanted here. And then she left and just went and had to go find other funding kind of situation. When we get back, I want to talk a little bit about what you think, how we're going to get Japanese founders to start thinking like Sony, like Toyota, like Uniclo, take on the world, as opposed to just be great in this amazing market when we get back on this week in startups.”
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“Right, and the seed funding stage is so important because if you're a woman, and this is one of the really disheartening things I experienced, this woman went to a Y combinator, and this is not to give Y combinator a hard time. They've done a pretty good job. She said, I went to a Y combinator mixer where they were trying to introduce founders and convince them to come to the program and start companies. And she went and she started talking to some of the partners and the people there. And they said, oh, are you here with your boyfriend?”
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“Started demanding that you hire a certain percentage of women and then they would name and shame. And then all of these weird unnatural acts happen. So the venture firms that didn't have enough women, they got rid of the titles. And then they would take four women who were in PR and who worked in operations and call them partner so that they could change the stats. Just to stop from being attacked. And they just flatten the entire company. Oh, everybody who works at this investment firm is a partner. And it was like, okay, now you're doing window dressing. It kind of very weird. But the truth is, if you want to solve this problem, you're going to have to start early.”
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“It's really interesting to hear the framing you have for it in the United States. It became... Very toxic. And there was a lot of shaming oh, you're funned. How many women? How many? Women who are black, Hispanic Asian, Indian, and then we had a very bizarre thing happen, and my wife happens to be Korean, so I have three daughters. This is a very personal issue to me, so I have three beautiful hoppa daughters. And they started saying, Well, we're not going to count the Asian founders or the Indian ones. And I did the same. They turned my head. What? That's a significant minority in the United States. And they said, well, they're too high achieving. So therefore, they don't count as minorities. And this is where America went. Cuckoo on this. Then”
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“So, somewhere like five or ten percent equity ownership or higher is probably the definition because you have to really get the definition right, I think. I'm going to say right now, because I'm looking here and I think we had seven of the 30 companies had a female co-founder. We track this ourselves. Is it seven Yes, I think it might be six, seven. That's an American meme. So we're 25%, but we're pretty avant-garde and we're the tip of the spear. So I'm going to guess it's lower than 25%. I'm going to say 15%. Two percent, that's really fascinating. Be honest, like let's attribute that. Is it because women don't want to take the job and they want to start families? Is it because capital doesn't take them serious? Is it misogyny? What is it?”
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“Okay, well, actually, I can probably think this through. To CEOs, or is the definition a woman as one of the two or three co-founders?”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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“Of course I never had to And a lot of my very successful American friends, some of the most successful, have moved here. I had Thomas here earlier, who's an angel investor. He's living here now. And getting a visa and being able to start a company here has gotten a lot easier too. Maybe talk a little bit about that”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All right, we're back at this week in startups. It's Foundry University. This is the first cohort of Foundry University. We're doing in Tokyo with our partner Jetro, and I've got 30 amazing companies in the audience. And I'm having a great time here. Japan, one of my favorite countries, I would actually say it is my favorite country. And you probably hear that a lot from entrepreneurs. Why? Why do entrepreneurs, when they come here fall in love with it and they come back and there's almost a joke in America that when somebody comes back from Japan, they will not stop talking about Japan and it becomes very annoying for the people who've been to Japan because they're like, I've been going for 20 years. And yes, I know all about it. But what is your perception of why this incredible relationship between our two nations”
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“All right, when we get back from this quick commercial break to thank our sponsors for making all this possible on this weekend startups, I want to talk to you about what you see for the future of Japan, especially when it comes to startup and founders, as well as why so many Americans are so impressed by Japan and are coming here and choosing to live here and how immigration is changing when we get back on the sweetening startups.”
2026-01-14 · This Week in Startups · Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it seemed like Japan had a very outward focus. And then when I started meeting the technology and the software companies, I started to see the opposite. The market here is such a great market. The entrepreneurs became very focused on servicing Japanese customers. Maybe you could educate myself and the audience in America of how entrepreneurs have changed their view and maybe this 20 years of the lost economy, maybe the stock market specifically. He worked at Goldman Sachs, I believe, before this, so you have some expertise there as well. Such a pleasure talking to you. Tell me a little bit about.”
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