{"id":11741,"date":"2010-12-17T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11741"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:50:13","slug":"video-dena-ceo-tomoko-nambas-interview-at-leweb10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/video-dena-ceo-tomoko-nambas-interview-at-leweb10\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: DeNA CEO Tomoko Namba&#8217;s Interview at LeWeb&#8217;10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dena.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4334\" title=\"dena\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dena.gif\" alt=\"DeNA logo\" width=\"299\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/tomoko-namba\">Tomoko Namba<\/a>, the CEO of Japanese mobile social gaming giant <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/dena\/\">DeNA<\/a> (and one of my personal heroes), gave a pretty interesting interview at web industry conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leweb.net\/\">LeWeb&#8217;10<\/a> earlier this month. LeWeb organizer Loic LeMeur asked her for a full 20 minutes about her company&#8217;s history, present and future plans<br \/>\nNamba, speaking in excellent English, doesn&#8217;t reveal any secrets, but especially for those of you unfamiliar with Japan&#8217;s huge mobile social gaming sector (the biggest in the world), the interview should be relevant. She mainly speaks about <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/mobage\/\">Mobage<\/a>, DeNA&#8217;s mobile social gaming platform (which she repeatedly calls a &#8220;social network&#8221; by the way).<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s particularly interesting is her mentioning that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>her 99% domestic and mobile company boasts a US$4 billion market cap at the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/li>\n<li>there is no &#8220;Zynga for smartphones&#8221; yet<\/li>\n<li>Mobage makes an insane US$1.2 billion revenue with 22 million members<\/li>\n<li>DeNA, unlike Zynga, sees itself as an open platform provider (DeNA doubles as a provider of games on its own platform, so Mobage is more like Facebook and Zynga rolled into one)<\/li>\n<li>her company will continue to globalize, as Japan&#8217;s mobile industry is rapidly moving towards smartphones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interview:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FrhfakmXxC4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomoko Namba, the CEO of Japanese mobile social gaming giant DeNA (and one of my personal heroes), gave a pretty interesting interview at web industry conference LeWeb&#8217;10 earlier this month. LeWeb organizer Loic LeMeur asked her for a full 20 minutes about her company&#8217;s history, present and future plans Namba, speaking in excellent English, doesn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/video-dena-ceo-tomoko-nambas-interview-at-leweb10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: DeNA CEO Tomoko Namba&#8217;s Interview at LeWeb&#8217;10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,31,38],"tags":[883,2080,2369,2370,3413,3751],"class_list":["post-11741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-social-game-2","category-video","tag-dena","tag-leweb","tag-mobage","tag-mobage-town","tag-social-games","tag-tomoko-namba","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}