Jay Winder

entrepreneur, technology liker, squash doer

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stuff i did & do

do

The business invoicing
solution for Japan.

MakeLeaps helps Japanese companies move their workflows to the cloud, such as invoicing, documents, and payment management.

do

Hacker News
Tokyo Community

I co-organise an offline monthly meet up, and an online Slack community discussing business, technology and Japan.

Offline Community: Doorkeeper

Offline Community: Meetup

Slack Community

did

IT consulting/services for
foreign companies in Japan

Webnet IT served wide range of companies from small businesses to enterprise.

Sold in 2017.

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Stuff thats good

Listen to this!

If you like loungey music : play list.

If you like house music: play list.

Some music I wrote.

Read these!

Principles of Persuasion

Sapiens | Blindsight | Genome

The Power To Compete

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman | The Power of Now

Fiction

Stories of Your Life and Others (Make sure to check out "Understand")

Watch this!

TV Black Mirror: Amazing dark science fiction. Don't read reviews first.

Film Ex Machina

Watch this too!

Rick and Morty

William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

STEVE JOBS

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

HENRY FORD

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

unknown

A ship in port is safe. But that’s not what ships were built for.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Richard Feynman

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

GEORGE CARLIN

The status quo sucks.

Always do whatever's next.

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT JAY WINDER

The New York Times

"Who?"

Emergent Artificial Intelligence

"Jay's matter would make plenty of paperclips."

Obi Wan Kenobi

"I haven't heard that name in a long time."

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