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During my student days, I vaguely thought I wanted to make a living through mathematical sciences. However, as a struggling math student, I didn't have the talent to become a researcher, and being a math teacher didn't suit my personality. I looked for ways to utilize my skills in general companies, but it was an unexpectedly narrow gate, and by early autumn, I hadn't received a single job offer. My plans as a struggling math student were naive. Giving up on bulk entries via the web, I applied to a financial data analysis company I found in the campus job postings and was hired. After this, the world fell into a financial crisis due to the Lehman shock, and a few years later, the big data boom occurred. Simultaneously, the star role for mathematical professionals shifted from financial engineering to data science. Truly, fortune is unpredictable and changeable.

About 10 years later, I started a company focused on data analysis. It wasn't that I disliked my work as an employee, but I began to feel a gap between the philosophy of the company I belonged to and my own. Looking at companies around the world, I felt none matched the philosophy I aimed for, so I started my own business. Our company considers social issues using mathematical science as a tool. That is precisely why we work hard even on things unrelated to mathematics. For example, before looking at a client's data, we understand the story behind it. To do that, we don't mind doing steady work that one wouldn't imagine from a data analysis job, such as visiting stores or observing the client's actual sales operations. Furthermore, while our company studies and knows various old and new technologies well, we never make the technology itself the goal. We adopt technology that is necessary and sufficient for the challenges of society and our clients. Harmonizing the seemingly contradictory relationship between people/society and mathematical science to provide value—this is the philosophy I envisioned.

It has been about 14 years since I completed graduate school, and I have continued to study, even while being lazy at times. I don't know if it's thanks to that, but I have come to be recognized by clients as an expert in data analysis. My vague desire to make a living through mathematical science has become a reality. In this way, self-centered desires turn into a philosophy by harmonizing them with the challenges of people and society, which then becomes action and reality. Now, thinking about it that way, the superiority or inferiority of one's ability at a single point in time is not the issue; the absolute amount of passion is what matters. If it is small, it settles in a small place; if it is large, it settles in the opposite.

How about your passion?