The essence of building a business, from a founder who took three companies public

Noriaki Maruyama, President and CEO of SBI Sumishin Net Bank, appears with an investor from ALPHA. Having overcome an illness that threatened his eyesight and unrewarding years as a banker, and having achieved three IPOs, he talks about the essence of building a business.

Topics include a system in which people who are not bank employees sell mortgages, how the “neobank” idea grew out of a chance encounter, growing up as the heir to a temple in a depopulated area, and his new company working on primary industries and digital transformation.