A movie changed the life of Satoru "Steve" Naito.
While at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, the then economics undergraduate watched "The Social Network," a biographical drama about Mark Zuckerberg's founding of Facebook. Inspired — particularly because Zuckerberg was his age when he got the idea for the social networking site — Naito began dreaming of how he could create a similar global product that would impact the world.
He saw the greatest opportunities in IT and, after learning that Facebook, Twitter and Google were all developed in Silicon Valley, decided that was where he needed to be.