What it's like building multiple businesses in Tokyo

What it's like building multiple businesses in Tokyo

Meet Lauren Rose Kocher, an entrepreneur and CEO of multiple businesses in Tokyo. She sits down to talk to us about her journey to Japan, working in the Japanese music industry before leaving to start her own business, and inheriting businesses from her late husband.


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0:00 Intro

0:45 Meet Lauren

4:30 Teaching English in Japan

8:58 Entering the music industry

15:09 What the music industry is like

19:05 Cyndi Lauper earthquake story

31:50 Working at Sony

44:50 Moving on

47:32 Establishing her own company

51:15 The COVID jackpot

58:00 Expansion and burnout

1:03:52 Having to leave her own company

1:09:13 Lauren's late husband

1:12:44 Starting a new company

1:15:10 Converting defunct family business

1:21:26 Looking back

1:25:32 Husband's businesses

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