Joyz, Inc.

As part of our ongoing hiring effort, we have received numerous applications from individuals who lack prior experience with remote work. In this article, I’m hoping to provide extra context around our decision to become an office-less organisation. Joyz Inc. has implemented an office-less management system that embraces the distributed/work-from-home style of work company-wide. The 2020 pandemic started it all For Joyz, like many other companies, the direct impetus for moving to office-less management was the outbreak of the COVID-19....

Recent departures at our company led to a lack of technical leadership, especially in the infra/backend. We had two choices. One is to scramble to hire a tech lead. Two is for me to assume the role temporarily while simultaneously functioning as the CEO. We went for the second option. This may seem like a red flag to some people. It is not ideal. Equally, I wasn’t ready to throw someone into a job where they faced technical obstacles while understanding the users, the team, and the codebase....

As a CEO of an EdTech company and a father of two toddlers, I’ve put a lot of thought into what makes people learn new things and develop to be the person they aspire to be. This isn’t limited to learning that typically happens in schools. Personal growth and development are fundamental requirements for a thriving organisation. I’ve come to observe in my professional career that the amount of learning one makes out of a particular experience differs greatly by person....

Nicely covered. Interview in conjunction with Google’s LuanchPad Accelerator Tokyo, which we’ve been selected for Batch One.

Joyz, Inc. (Head office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Yoshiyuki Kakihara; hereinafter referred to as Joyz) announces that it has started joint research with the Saruwatari-Koyama Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, on the application of speech synthesis technology to language acquisition. In this joint research, Joyz will work with Assistant Professor Shinnosuke Takamichi (hereafter, Assistant Professor Takamichi) in Saruwatari Laboratory, Department of Systems Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, to develop effective foreign language acquisition methods utilising learning history and speech data owned by Joyz, in an industry-academia collaboration system....

AI英会話アプリ「TerraTalk」のHeroku＋AWS活用法 I gave a talk at an AWS user conference. I spoke about the technical challenges of AI English learning app TerraTalk, the back-end configuration and our agility-first architecture. Thank you to everyone involved for the opportunity!