Yusaku Maezawa: irreverent billionaire fascinated by space

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Yusaku Maezawa is far from the traditional image of a staid Japanese businessman.

The 46-year-old tycoon is the founder of Japan’s largest online fashion mall and is the country’s 30th-richest person, according to business magazineBut he is far from the traditional image of a staid Japanese businessman, with more than 10 million people following his Twitter account, its handle a play on his first name: @yousuck2020.

It was a record price, but Maezawa insists he is just an “ordinary collector” who buys pieces “simply because they are beautiful”. How much Maezawa has spent on his upcoming space adventure is unclear, as the price tag has been kept a secret, though similar trips have cost millions of dollars. The ISS trip won’t be Maezawa’s last space odyssey, as the businessman has also booked out an entire SpaceX rocket for a trip around the Moon scheduled for 2023 at the earliest.

Maezawa has made a habit of holding online competitions, creating a Twitter frenzy in 2020 when he said he would give away US$9mil to 1,000 people as a “social experiment”.

 

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