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Taro Sasaki 佐々木太郎
Founder & CEO, Hacobu
1,730X followers · @TAROSASAKI · checked 2026-10-17
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¥5.6Braised by the company, as of 2025-05
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Background
Advising a dairy wholesaler, he saw deliveries still arranged by fax and paper with no visibility of trucks. He founded Hacobu in 2015, his third start-up, to digitise logistics between companies. Source
Public appearances
| Undated Interview | Data is the key to Japan's 2024 logistics problem (Nikkei Business) 「物流2024年問題、解決の鍵はデータ」ハコブCEOに聞く Sasaki argues that the truck-driver shortage caused by Japan's 2024 overtime cap can only be solved by sharing logistics data across companies. Summary by The Raising Sun. From the article headline and search-result summary. |
| Undated Interview | On my third try, I found the reason to found a company (Recruit Direct Scout) 三度目で見つけた、起業する意義 Sasaki describes early experiments with tachographs, fleet management and matching. Adoption only accelerated with the truck-berth booking system MOVO Berth. Summary by The Raising Sun. From search-result summary of the article. |