You're both right, here's his blog entry on leadership in World of Warcraft: https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2006/03/13/leadership-in-w.html https://joi.ito.com/web

You're both right, here's his blog entry on leadership in World of Warcraft: https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2006/03/13/leadership-in-w.html https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2006/03/13/leadership-in-w.html I'd guess by this point, he'd already made some money as a tech founder and CEO in Japan. He was apparently an early investor in Twitter, which was founded eight days after he wrote this blog post.