Kenji Kasahara
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 5/8/17
$2.1 B
- Kasahara founded social networking site Mixi in 2004; it went public in 2006.
- In 2013 Mixi was losing customers and investors as competitors raced ahead.
- Kasahara stepped down as CEO but stayed on as chairman.
- He refocused the business on mobile gaming, e-commerce, dating and apartment hunting.
- Mixi’s popular Monster Strike game has been downloaded tens of millions of times.
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