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Taro Fukuyama

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
176 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

We do have a marketing program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

We spend a lot of ads going to the trade show, all that kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

And we do have human beings in the office as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So both of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

I think we've attended around four to five big conferences.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

There are not that many like huge amount of conference for the HR tech business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So I think that market is growing to hold together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So we typically go to key one like HR tech conference or like SHRM conferences.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

SHRM, it's short for S-H-R-M, SHRM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

That's the largest HR conference in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Uh, it's about the line.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

I think a little more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

But we're trying to get aggressive on the marketing expansion side just to make sure that we are, you know, the leader of the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

My favorite book would be Effective Executive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

That's written by Peter Drucker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

How you can be more effective than being efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

There are a lot of CEOs that I follow, like Mark Benioff, a team from Zora, but the one I follow more is actually Ichiro, who is a baseball player.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

I think there are a lot of similarities between athletes and then CEOs, and how he tried to organize himself and have discipline internally is a key learning curve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

What was his name?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Ichiro.