Why more than 4 billion yen is flowing into a startup in Indonesia: mobility and finance, built from Japan

Taketo Sakai, CEO of movus technologies, talks about the company’s business of providing car subscriptions to ride-hailing drivers in Indonesia, his setbacks in the Keio University baseball club, founding the company with a teammate from university baseball, and its 4.26 billion yen Series B round.

Topics include how the business works in a country where public transport is underdeveloped and many people cannot own a car, his change of course after once aiming to become prime minister and his years at SoftBank, and his vision of earning foreign currency for a Japan with a shrinking population while building a win-win relationship with emerging countries.