EP 192 – Takahito Iguchi – CubeMint – Merging the Physical World With the Audio Metaverse

by Michael Waitze | Apr 10, 2022

The Asia Tech Podcast spoke to Takahito Iguchi…you know who he is. You remember his photos in those cool-looking glasses as the Japanese competitor to Google Glass. He is back with a new product called CubeMint, an attempt at creating an offline to online audio metaverse.

Some of the topics that Iguchi-san covered:

His original product launch of Sekai Camera
Moving to San Francisco from Japan to get better connected to the VC and startup world
Raising $15MM for Sekai Camera at a Techcrunch event
Leaving Sekai Camera to found Telepathy
Eventually getting fired from Telepathy and losing everything
Feeling depressed and considered leaving the startup community completely
The realization that many people feel isolated and that audio is a great connector
Creating the audio metaverse and CubeMint, currently using Polygon’s Matic
The merging of physical spaces and the CubeMint metaverse

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