Shintaro Yamada (businessman)
# Shintaro Yamada (businessman)

Shintaro Yamada (Japanese: 山田 進太郎, Hepburn: Yamada Shintarō, born 1977/1978) is a Japanese businessman, and the founder, CEO and one-third owner of the online marketplace Mercari.

## Early life

Yamada earned a degree in mathematics from Waseda University.

## Career

His first job after university was as an intern at Rakuten, then a little-known e-commerce company, for whom he developed an auction website.

In 2001, he founded Unoh, a games company, that was bought by Zynga in 2010.

Yamada became a billionaire following Mercari's IPO in June 2018.

