Shintaro Yamada

$971.21M

as of 08/14/23

About Shintaro Yamada

Shintaro Yamada founded the online used-goods marketplace, Mercari, in 2013 and is the company's CEO.

Yamada launched the online marketplace focusing on smartphone users. It had achieved unicorn status by 2016.

Mercari's shares have more than doubled since 2020 on an online-buying boom during the pandemic.

The company gave each employee a grant of $550 to cover the cost of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Japan

Source of wealth

mobile apps

Residence

Tokyo, Japan

Birth date

09/21/77 (age 47)

Self-made

self-made

Shintaro Yamada’s fortune is worth

16K

troy ounces of gold

15K

median U.S. household

10K

median U.S. income

0.019%

U.S. credit card volume

0.004%

GDP of the United States

0.003%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

In July 2019, Mercari bought a 62% stake in Japan's top-scoring soccer team, the Kashima Antlers, for $15 million.