A137 Yes. The mixi president, Kenji Kasahara, was 30 when the company was listed. The president of CREE Inc. (like mixi, a social networking service), Yoshikazu Tanaka, was born in 1977, while Junya Kondo, the president of the "get-answers-from-people" site called hatena, was born in 1975, making them almost the same age as Kasahara. This generation of managers is said to be the third generation of Japanese IT entrepreneurs, the first generation having been born in the 1950s. For example, Softbank Corp.'s President Masayoshi Son was born in 1957. The second generation was born in the 1960s, and includes such individuals as Rakuten Inc.'s President Hiroshi Mikitani, who was born in 1965.