When Yoshito Hori quit Sumitomo Corp. in the early 1990s and started a business school, many of his colleagues thought he was taking too great a risk. As it turned out, he was on the leading edge of the venture boom.
Hori founded Globis Management School in Tokyo in 1992 and then launched the venture capital fund Globis Capital Partners in 1996.
Hori was a Kyoto University graduate and got his MBA from Harvard Business School. Unlike in the United States, becoming an entrepreneur was not common in Japan in the early 1990s, especially for those who had graduated from a prestigious university and had a job at a large company.