Tak Miyata built his cross-border reputation by selling one startup to Google and another, in Japan, to mixi, and he later ran Zen Square, a physical space in San Francisco meant to connect Silicon Valley and Asia. He also thinks about business models in concrete terms, once suggesting golf clubs be sold as a subscription that changes with a player's skill level, and he has backed companies working on research aboard the International Space Station, calling space a major frontier for business.