Justin Yoshimura on Clubhouse

Bio

I am currently the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CSC Generation. We are probably the fastest growing start up you’ve never heard of ($500M in year 5, cash flow positive last 3 years).

*After being told that nobody would ever hire me, I quit the bureaucracy and negativity of Palos Verdes High School to start a marketplace for unlocked cell phones, which was acquired by a PE firm when I was 19 years old. More recently, I founded 500friends, the leading loyalty and retention marketing platform for retailers, which merged with Merkle in 2014, and was eventually acquired by Dentsu Aegis in 2016. Im also the founding investor and Board Member of Wunderkind, which will do $100M+ in recurring revenues this year.

I also invest between $50k and $1M in interesting companies run by interesting people, eg:
*Consumer Internet Companies (excluding social networking): Hipmunk (seed, acquired by Concur), Dropoff (seed), Next Force Technology (seed), Gigster (seed), Dave (seed), Macro Ventures (seed), Imperfect Produce (seed).
*SaaS/b2b Companies: Firebase (seed - acquired by GOOG), Zencoder (seed - acquired by BCOV), ifeelgoods (seed), Ownlocal (seed), BounceX (seed, co-lead Series A), Mux (seed), BigFinite (seed).
*Funds: Bling Capital, Ovo Fund, Luma Capital Partners, Dundee Venture Capital, Crown Capital Management.

I also love animals, especially dogs, (most) cats, dolphins, whales, capybaras, platypus, manatees and sea turtles. Despite this, I am not a vegetarian, primarily because I lack self discipline. However, I do want to clarify that I do not eat any of the animals listed above, and would judge you for doing so, especially considering the prevalent belief that eating wild animals purchased at "Wet Markets" is what caused COVID.

I've also been included in vanity lists such as the Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 500, AlwaysOn top 100, DM News 40 under 40, etc, but thankfully, I stopped advertising this in my LinkedIn headline while I was still a teenager.