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Yusaku Maezawa
Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur, space tourist, and art collector. He founded Start Today in 1998 and launched the online fashion retail website Zozotown in 2004, now Japan's largest.
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business · Japanese entrepreneur (born 1975) · businessperson · musician · astronaut · entrepreneur · also Yusaku Maezawa, Maezawa Yusaku, Maezawa Yūsaku, Yūsaku Maezawa, MZ, Maezawa
Born 22 November 1975 · Q8061829
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2025· 8 entries
Published video “【前澤友作 x 箕輪厚介】壊れていない人間に、革命は起こせない。”.
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Published video “【偽善者の告白】前澤友作 × 箕輪厚介 「偽善者」特別インタビュー 2025年12月5日発売 ご予約はプロフィール欄から”.
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Published video “【偽善者】前澤友作を知る50人の証言⑤”.
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2023· 2 entries
Invested $23 million in the satellite company Astroscale
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The project was fully cancelled on 1 June 2024
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2022· 1 entry
Maezawa sold an untitled Basquiat Painting for $85 Million
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2020· 2 entries
Won Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon (2020).
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Reported net worth: $2B (as of 2020).
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2018).
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Maezawa introduced Zozo, a custom-fit clothing brand and the Zozosuit an at-home measurement system, in over 72 countries and territories
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2012· 1 entry
With a goal of "supporting young artists as a pillar of the next generation of contemporary art
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2004· 1 entry
And six years later, Start Today became a publicly traded company, listed on the "Mothers" Index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
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2001· 1 entry
Maezawa declared a hiatus on his music career
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1998· 2 entries
And launched the online fashion retail website Zozotown in 2004, now Japan's largest
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Maezawa used the basis of the mail-order album business to launch the company Start Today
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1995· 1 entry
His album collection became the basis for his first company, which sold imported albums and CDs through the mail
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1991· 1 entry
Where he started a hardcore punk band with his classmates called Switch Style, in which he was the drummer
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1975· 1 entry
Born 1975-11-22.
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