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Rakuten A global company with unique opportunities for engineers

Hiro Yoshioka, DU Rakuten Inc.

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Technology Conference 2014 On Oct. 25th Saturday free of charge at Rakuten Tower in Shinagawa Seaside （regional venue: Rakuten Sendai/Osaka/Fukuoka office, Singapore office）

Go Register! → http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/

Highlights of this year Top front runners and legendary presenters will take the stage!

Yoga Session

This year, we will provide a special session about yoga and meditation for engineers. Through meditation, relax your body and soul, and enhance your creativity!!

Beer Bash Enjoy talking and drinking at the beer bash after the conference. We’d be very glad that you’ll have fun communicating with speakers and other participants. (Of course, it’s free of charge!!)

Starts at 11:00 am on Saturday, Oct 25th!! Go Register! → http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/

Rakuten Technology Conference 2014

What is Rakuten?

No.1 E-commerce company in Japan Called “Rakuten Ichiba”　http://www.rakuten.co.jp/

Nearly 30

%

Share of Japanese online retail market

Over 40,000

Number of Rakuten Ichiba merchants:

Over

\1trillion

Rakuten Ichiba and Book’s GMS surpassed *in October 2012

82 million

Number of Rakuten Ichiba merchants:

Unique Business model

Over 40

services

25 countries/

regions

\4 trillion

*Group consolidated

E-Commerce

Credit Card

Banking

Securities Telecom

Travel

E-Money Digital Goods

Portal & Content

Database

Loyalty Program

Log-In

Over 40

services

25 countries/

regions

\4 trillion

Unique Business model

*Group consolidated

E-Commerce eBook Travel Other Services & Businesses

Rakuten Institute of Technology　　 Development Center Head Office / Regional Headquarters　

Over 40

services

25 countries/

regions

\4 trillion

Unique Business model

*Group consolidated

32 68 99 181 456

1,298

2,033 2,139

2,499

2,983

3,461 3,799

4,435

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

3,500

4,000

4,500

5,000 （Million USD） Over

40 services

25 countries/

regions

\4 trillion

X135

Unique Business model

*Group consolidated

17 years ago, Rakuten was born with a big dream

1991 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

Empowering People and Societies through the Internet

1997 Founded

2000 IPO(JASDAQ)

Our EC business model is very unique!

Rakuten Ichiba: Shop-centric

EC sites in US: Product-centric

2002 Launched “Pay-as-you-go programme“, “Rakuten Super Points”service

2006 Announced our vision “Rakuten ecosystem” ,which connects online and offline services.

We are making merchants and users happy

Support

2008 First E-Commerce Expansion Overseas

2011 Achieved over 1 trillion yen in gross transaction volume and 38,000 online shops

As result…

2012 Official Start of "English-nization"

Over 10,000 employees

2013 Brand Royalty

1.  Rakuten Ichiba 2.  Yahoo!Japan 3.  Google 4.  Amazon.co.jp 5.  ECnavi 6.  Kakaku.com 7.  Youtube 8.  Wikipedia 9.  Suntory 10.  KIRIN Beer

Researched by Nikkei BP consulting

Most supported Web site in Japan

Web Brand Research 2013

1.  Salesforce 2.  Alexion Pharmacy 3.  Vmware 4.  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 5.  ARM Holdings 6.  Baidu 7.  Amazon 8.  Intuitive Surgical 9.  Rakuten 10.  Natura Cosmeticos

Innovation

Most Innovative Companies in the world

ranked by Forbes

World’s Most Innovative Companies

2013

Working in Rakuten as an engineer

Many

fields

Global Experience

E-commerce Online travel

Portal site Auction

Many

fields

Global Experience

E-banking Credit card

e-money Securities

Many

fields

Global Experience

WiFi IP Phone(app)

Payment Coupon

Many

fields

Global Experience

Web research Solar Panel

Insurance

Horse racing

toto

Many

fields

Global Experience

eBook

Digital Contents

Logistics

Video streaming

and so on

Many

fields

Global Experience

No.1 baseball team Many

fields

Global Experience

“English-nization” Changed our all internal language into English

Case Study of Harvard Business School

Many

fields

Global Experience

China, 98

India, 49 Korea, 26

US, 18

Vietnam, 12

Canada, 7

Australia, 6 Thai, 5

Norway, 5 Indonesia, 4

Sweden, 4 Malaysia, 4 UK, 3

Singapore, 2

Others, 46

NON-JP 25% JP

75%

*As of end of July/2013

1,400 engineers

Globalization

Many

fields

Global Experience

NON-JP 66%

JP 34%

FY14 new grads,79

Where Mid-career Engineers Came From

Many

fields

Global Experience

previous company Google Amazon Microsoft

Yahoo Apple GREE

NHN Japan Accenture

Wipro HUAWEI

Nokia

Rapid Expansion

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

*Invest

Many

fields

Global Experience

Learning Opportunities

Development camp at SF with foreign engineers

Global experience program

Pics of study session

Learning Opportunities

Study Sessions (very often)

Overseas Conference (1 time/year)

Learning Opportunities

Hackathon

Engineers in Rakuten

Career Steps for Engineers

Years

Infra Eng App Eng

3

5~7

Project Mgr

Product Mgr

Top Eng Architect Infra

Specialist

Org Mgr

Various technologies in a wide range of services

We’d like to work with people who…

-  are technology lovers

-  have creativity, ambition and skills to change the world

-  want to empower various lifestyles love your service, love your customers

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