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Who is Yusaku Maezawa?

Yusaku Maezawa, 42, is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online fashion retailer. Now, he’s also slated to be the first private citizen to go to the moon.

At Monday’s SpaceX reveal, Maezawa said he was once a skateboarder and fascinated by American culture. After six months in the US, he headed back to Japan and started to play the drums in a band before founding a mail order business called Start Today in 1998. Two years later, he took the business online.

His band, Switch Style, found some success with its hard and fast punk rock. In an interview with the Japan Times, he noted he was the president of his own company while touring with the band until Start Today’s success grew to a point where he couldn’t do both. He decided to quit the band and forge forward with his online business. In 2004, he launched online fashion retailer Zozotown and recently announced a made-to-measure bodysuit service as part of the ZOZO brand, known as the Zozosuit. The suit allows people to ensure the clothes they order online fit perfectly before they arrive. Orders for the suit were so popular that they well-exceeded production capacity. Last fiscal year, Zozotown’s sales topped $76 billion. Forbes’ most recent rich list has Maezawa as Japan’s 18th richest person, with an estimated worth of $2.7 billion and the 59th richest person in tech. In the wake of Monday’s announcement that he would be headed to the moon, Start Today‘s stock price jumped, before settling again.