Silicon Valley Bureau Chief at NewsPicks, Inc.
new york, new york, united states
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Claim your profileI set up a Silicon Valley branch office of NewsPicks in 2018. Covered startups and top-tier venture capital firms and major IT companies since then. Covered Peter Tiel, an entrepreneur and investor, Eric Yang, founder and CEO of Zoom, Marie Kondo, an organizing consultant, Alex Krizhevsky, who built the current AI era, and more. Before NewsPicks, I worked as a reporter and a producer at TV TOKYO, part of the Nikkei Group. I have reported from over 20 countries on various international issues, economic news, and business topics.






Journalism at Stanford UniversityGraduated: 2017
Bachelor Of Arts, Management at Keio UniversityGraduated: 2002
German, German Studies at The University Of BonnGraduated: 2001