James McHugh
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We've stayed on as a shareholder.
We sold down a little bit.
So I listened to your podcast with your Turkish business partner.
And I love that story because it was about, and you could clearly see it between the two of you talking, it was about mutual respect, about being successful together, about enjoying the partnership.
I couldn't have achieved what I achieved in Japan without Scott.
Like it's the same relationship.
So win service now.
So is Scott Japanese?
Scott's... Because he doesn't sound Japanese.
Yeah.
So what's... Scott's American Japanese.
Grew up in New York.
Yes.
Yes.
Right.
Yes.
Short story.
So when we were building that business, I have often said to people that the key decisions for that business weren't made in boardrooms.
They were made shoulder to shoulder at a bar in Akasaka at 9pm on a Thursday, where the two of us would be sitting together talking about, do we do this with the CEO?
Do we promote this?