Do You Want to Help Japan?

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So I think you're very passionate about Japan and wanting to develop Japan like as a tech scene. Is it possible for a foreigner, a non Japanese speaker to go to Japan and build a tech company or to build an engineering team in Japan? Like is it something that's feasible today? Or is it something right not only accessible to people who have the ability to speak Japanese and maybe are from there a deep understanding of the culture and language. "Because this is my passion I'm happy to help," he says.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how building two very different engineering organizations from the ground up showed him the importance of diversity in engineering teams.

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