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Joi Ito

1966 - Today

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Joichi "Joi" Ito (伊藤 穰一, Itō Jōichi; born June 19, 1966) is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the president of Chiba Institute of Technology. He is on the Board of Directors for the Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan where he is also the Chairman of the Gelephu Investment Development Corporation (GIDC). He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at Harvard Law School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joi Ito is the 768th most popular businessperson (down from 715th in 2024), the 2,379th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,844th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Joi Ito ranks 768 out of 847. Before him are Steve Huffman, Emmanuel Faber, Stephen Elop, Michael Widenius, Mitchell Baker, and Mukhriz Mahathir. After him are Gérard Lopez, Andrew Ng, Charles Erwin Wilson, Dorabji Tata, Albert Bourla, and Zablon Simintov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Joi Ito ranks 580. Before him are Filip Šovagović, Jason Gould, Anne Fletcher, Zahn McClarnon, Robert Seethaler, and Tibor Navracsics. After him are Georg Hackl, Yevgeny Zinichev, Choi Young-il, Kazuto Sakata, Kae Araki, and Richard Wiseman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Joi Ito ranks 2,379 out of 6,245. Before him are Mika Kanai (1964), Kyosuke Yoshikawa (1978), Masaki Tanaka (1991), Tetsuya Asano (1967), Manabu Kubota (1981), and Oribe Niikawa (1988). After him are Yumu Kudo (1990), Hiroshi Kato (1951), Kishō Taniyama (1975), Yuta Inagaki (1992), Masahiro Takahashi (1985), and Rie Tanaka (1979).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Joi Ito ranks 25. Before him are Hiro Matsushita (1961), Shuntaro Furukawa (1972), Maki Kaji (1951), Shuhei Yoshida (1964), Hiroshi Mikitani (1965), and Kaz Hirai (1960).

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