Taizo Son is a world-renowned serial entrepreneur and investor who has led many ITrelated startups to success. While a student at the University of Tokyo, he participated in the launch of Yahoo! JAPAN in 1996, and established Indigo Corporation to support content creation and service operation, becoming its representative director. Later, in 1998, he was appointed Representative Director of GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.

In 2013, he founded Mistletoe Inc., a Collective Impact Community that advocates a new style of business through startup support, to solve social challenges with a mid-to-long term perspective. Through the activities of Mistletoe, Inc., he has redefined the definition of the existing social issues and has supported startups that may have a solution. He also serves as board of director for various IT startups that he helped found.