Until then, I had thought that the goal of a business person was to get ahead in a big company, but at Harvard I learned that starting a business was the greatest possible achievement in business. In the United States, people who start small companies are praised.
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Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
Japan
Technology
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