Shintaro Yamada Email Address

Chief Executive Officer

Mercari was launched in 2013 and has since become the largest mobile marketplace in Japan with over 55 million downloads worldwide. \r\n\r\nCurrently, Mercari is on a mission to become a global marketplace, and with a fast-growing user base in the US of over 20 million downloads and a new office in the UK, we are on our way to doing just that. We are serious about creating innovative services that will leave an impression worldwide and change the way the world shops. \r\n\r\nSound exciting? Then why don't you come along for the ride?\r\n\r\nOur mission is to create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell. We have three core company values that bind us together as a company:\r\nGo Bold\r\nAll For One\r\nBe Professional\r\n\r\nWe're always looking for talented individuals to join our multicultural team.\r\n\r\nView our featured job opportunities:\r\nhttps://www.mercari.com/jp/jobs/#joblist\r\n\r\nFeatured article:\r\nMarketplace app Mercari nabs $75M to become Japan's first startup unicorn \r\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2016/03/01/mercari-unicorn

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unoh include planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users.On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 170,000 followers on Twitter.