Summary
Nobuto Hachiya is a product-driven CEO and former engineer with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling Japan’s internet businesses across gaming, media, streaming, and commerce. He led the management buyout of Teller Novel and grew it into Japan’s largest UGC novel platform, scaling MAU from 0.5M to 1.6M while tripling ad revenue and launching a manga publishing arm. Previously he shipped high‑scale social and streaming products at DeNA, helped turn MERY into a 10M+ monthly editorial brand, and pioneered mobile game streaming with Mirrativ. At DMM he launched live-commerce innovations and ran product and operational transformations that improved efficiency and go‑to‑market execution. He combines hands‑on engineering roots with strategic product instincts and a thesis-driven mission to export Japan’s storytelling advantage globally via short-drama IP. Based in Japan with a master’s in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, he’s quietly built repeatable playbooks for turning content communities into scalable media businesses.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
修士(工学), 修士(工学) at 東京工業大学