Yusaku Maezawa

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Biography

• Yusaku Maezawa founded Japan's largest online fashion mall, Zozotown, in 1998. Its parent company, Zozo, is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
• In 2019, Maezawa announced that he was resigning as CEO and selling most of his stake to Yahoo Japan in a deal worth more than $2.3 billion.
• Maezawa got his start selling CDs and records of his favorite bands by mail from his home.
• He collects modern art and plans to build a museum to display it in Chiba, east of Tokyo.
• In 2021, Maezawa flew on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station for a 12-day trip. Maezawa's trip to the moon on Elon Musk's SpaceX, scheduled for 2023, was cancelled in 2024 due to delays in the rocket's development.
• In 2017, he paid over $110 million for Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting "Untitled," a new record for the artist.
• Maezawa, who had advertised in January 2020 for a 'life partner' to accompany him on his moon trip, later sought eight people to go with him.

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