After graduating junior high school Shotaro Kushi relocated to the U.S. alone. At 16, He graduated high school and started his own business. Returning to Japan after 9-11, Kushi began working for a finance firm and participated as an engineer in an IT project at a U.S. military base. At 19, He joined Dell Inc., and at 20 became top salesman in the corporate sales department. After two more years, He resigned and visited creative communities in 25 countries around the world. Returning to the company at 23, Kushi became the youngest sales manager, but resigned again and became a social business entrepreneur in Kyushu Miyazaki Prefecture. In 2013 Kushi moved operations to Tokyo, and on February 22,2014, launched TABI LABO. In May of the same year it became a corporation. Currently, TABI LABO has 8,000,000 visitors per month and is evolving into a content platform for a new era.