Intern builds billion-dollar company inspired by mom's comment
Intern builds billion-dollar company inspired by mom's comment Japanese company helps small retailers to create online stores Min Jeong Lee and Ayaka Maki, Bloomberg Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Yuta Tsuruoka at the company's office in Tokyo.Kentaro Takahashi/Bloomberg Everything changed for Yuta Tsuruoka when his mother, who runs a small shop in rural Japan, made a passing comment: She wanted to set up her own online store but didn’t know how. “That was the start of it all,” Tsuruoka, 30, said. “We were in a world where people with no internet skills and no money, like my mom,...