Michael Lewis
speaker
11,580 appearances
71 recordings
16 series
first heard Sep 2020
last heard 23 Jun
Michael Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you liked it.
We had a great time.
It started as a Yakuza company.
Like, it's crazy.
How did it start?
It was playing cards.
So gambling was illegal in Japan after the Meiji Restoration.
And so they made Hanafuda cards, which are cards in Japan.
And the Yakuza was the main customer.
And then they got into toys.
The Japanese Mafia was the main customer.
That's funny.
Yeah, this is an amazing, amazing story.
And they have this philosophy called lateral thinking with withered technology, which is, if you look at Nintendo systems, even going way, way, way back, it's not bleeding edge technology.
It's like a couple generations back technology.
How can we take withered technology and think outside the box with it?
So like the Wii is the best example of this.
The Game Boy was the original example of this.
The Game Boy is basically a calculator.
But, like, it didn't have a color screen.
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