October 14, 2025
Pharma 4.0: How AI Is Transforming the Future of Pharmaceuticals
Fifteen years and US$2 billion—that is the average time and cost of developing a new drug, with clinical trial success r...
October 13, 2025
What a Decade of Investing Taught Me
2025 marks the tenth anniversary of founding Cherubic Ventures. When I first stepped into early-stage investing, I belie...
September 15, 2025
Story Crafting Is the New Competitive Edge
While teaching a Leadership course at an international high school in Japan, I witnessed something that left a deep impr...
August 20, 2025
AI Is Not Merely a Technology, but a Strategic Cultural Asset
A while ago, I spoke with a foreign friend who has been a longtime entrepreneur in Japan, and we talked about his local ...
August 14, 2025
A Campus Conversation That Lingers
This summer, while visiting Columbia University, I struck up a casual conversation with a sophomore studying computer sc...
August 12, 2025
How Did Shisa.ai Create the Most Japanese-Proficient LLM with Just a Three-Person Team? Interview with Founder Jia Shen
In a restaurant on a Tokyo street, a foreign traveler points at the menu, trying to inquire in English: “Hi, just wonder...
July 17, 2025
If You’re Starting College in 2025
Dear Matt, Congratulations on starting college in 2025! I know you’re feeling both excited and a little overwhelmed righ...
July 16, 2025
“We Don’t Really Have Privacy”: How Terminal 3 Is Shaping a New Data Order. ——Interview with founder Gary Liu
“I can tell you that in the digital world, we don’t really have privacy,” said Gary Liu, founder of th...
July 16, 2025
The AI Economy Is Here—Are We Ready to Identify “AI Consumers”?
Amazon launched the new “Buy for Me” feature in March this year, allowing users to place orders on other bra...
June 24, 2025
AI Can’t Compute the Value of Trial and Error
In an era where AI is rapidly permeating every aspect of life and work, I often reflect not only as an investor ponderin...