At 9:51 a.m. on December 8, Zozotown founder Yusaku Maezawa tweeted, "This is my last message on Earth." The next one will be released from the universe. Well, I'm off. ”
At 16:38 on the afternoon of the 8th, Maezawa Yusaku took the Russian Alliance MS-20 spacecraft to the International Space Station for a 12-day space trip, which is expected to return on December 20.
Maezawa was accompanied by his assistant Yozo Hirano and Russian astronaut Alexander Misurkin.
Maezawa Yusaku is the first time in 31 years that Japanese civilians have entered space and the first time That Japanese civilians have stopped at the International Space Station.
Maezawa Yusaku, known as "Japan's Wang Sicong", has appeared on social media in a high profile all year round, like Wang Sicong. Either take 1 billion yen and send it to lucky netizens, or recruit girlfriends to go to the moon.
Don't think he's just having money to talk about it, on September 13, 2018, the Us space development company Space X quietly released a tweet saying that it would use its own BFR launch vehicle to transport the world's first private passenger flying around the moon. It is also an important step taken by ordinary people who dream of flying into space.
This ordinary person who has attracted global attention is the former Yusaku Maezawa who cherishes Musk's heart. In March 2018, Musk announced that he would use a BFR launch vehicle to send private passengers on a flight around the moon, and as soon as the news came out, everyone thought he was crazy.
Half a year later, Maezawa Yusaku responded to him. Not only did he buy a ticket for $250 million out of his own pocket, but he also took advantage of the situation to package the entire rocket and invite several artists to travel to space for free.
It can be said that Maezawa Yusaku is really a hype wizard, from responding to Musk to become the first person to make an appointment in the sky, to inviting artists to go with him, and finally even launching a blind date talent show to choose "Chang'e girlfriend" to run to the moon together.
After this series of operations, Maezawa Yusaku sat firmly in the hot search headlines of various countries every day, and even the grandmothers in the village relied on tv to mix with him, fame and fortune, and the profit of the fisherman were all him.
His e-commerce site, Zozotown, made a lot of money in new year's sales and broke through 10 billion yen at the fastest speed.
He also uttered the classic quote, "Money! The more you spend, the more you spend! ”
Unlike many of the brash and popular fuse generation, Maezawa's success is all about working from scratch.
Born on November 22, 1975 in Chiba Prefecture, Maezawa Tomoyuki showed a different business talent from the average person. In the 4th grade of elementary school, he sold his catch of beetles to his classmates.
After high school, because he was obsessed with music, he rarely went to school since his sophomore year of high school, and most of his time was spent playing music. To make money, he also worked as a construction worker on the construction site to earn the cost of the band's practice room and travel to the United States.
Since childhood, he knew what kind of decisions he wanted to make and what kind of road he wanted to take, and Maezawa Yusaku was destined to have a life different from ordinary people.
After graduating from high school, he used the money he earned from part-time work to take his girlfriend to the United States to study music for 6 months, started a band called Switch Style with his classmates, and released their first EP in 1993.
Music is his hobby, but also his entrepreneurial stepping stone, at the age of 20 he found his own collection of CDs, some people will be willing to pay a large price to buy, relying on keen business intuition, he also found the "sea tao" European and American CD business opportunities, in order to catch the first bucket of gold in his life.
In 2004, Maezawa Yusaku, who estimated that online shopping would become mainstream in the future, once again relied on his excellent business acumen to found the e-commerce website Zozotown, which mainly sells niche Japanese fashion brands.
He set up a 6-hour workday for his company's employees, going to work at 9 a.m. and leaving work at 3 p.m., not to be a boring office worker, which is the most he says to himself and to his employees.
Even in a high-pressure competitive environment, Zozotown's flexible and relaxed way of going to work not only did not "send the company away", but became bigger and bigger in e-commerce, growing rapidly for 10 consecutive years until it became a leader. In 2018, Maezawa yusaku was ranked Japan's 12th richest man, worth $2.9 billion.
Will make money and will also spend money! Maezawa set three principles for spending money as himself:
In the present, spend as much money as possible in your hands;
From the experience of spending money, push yourself to grow again;
Only when you grow up, you can make more money.
The freedom to play music makes Maezawa Not only hardcore in his work, but also brilliant in his life.
In April 2018, when the popular little flower Gang Li Cai Bud admitted to being in a relationship with Maezawa Yusaku on IG. After two brief splits and reunions, the two did not come together in the end.
In addition to gangli color buds, saeiko and Shimokyo Keiko, these beautiful people have all interacted with Maezawa Yusaku.
Because I like to collect, I have also established a large number of big names in the art circle and the trend circle. Casually have dinner with Takashi Murakami.
Have a coffee with the Twitter founder.
Get together with Jay Chou and his wife.
From IG to Twitter to Weibo, Maezawa Yusaku's various social software has played quite smoothly.
Play yourself into a rich generation, play yourself into a billionaire. Now he also flies into space to realize his dream of the moon since childhood. For him, from selling beetles to classmates to working hard to work and choosing to go to the United States after graduating from high school, nothing is impossible in the life he wants to live!
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