Interesting Reddit post on Japanese business culture re: disagreement (never experienced it myself)

Dev ecosystem @farcaster, cofounder @bountycaster. Prev: cofounder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, coproducer @ethereumfilm

I’ve been there. You find out where you stand if you need approval .. for anything. I wanted to buy ITO Glass from Nissha some years ago. We met for over 2 months. We needed a chop from every engineer to move ahead .. remember.. to *buy* something. In the end, the team lead would not add his chop. No discussion. Idea/product   dead. We built in China instead at the factory making iPhone glass in Xiamen, TPK. They couldn’t have cared less.

We pushed a hard charm offensive at Nissha/Japan. Even answered the trick question: who was Nissha’s first customer? Ans: Nintendo in 16th century. Japan is obscure and inscrutable as a culture. Trust is basically impossible for outsiders. But that’s a feature, not a bug.