{"id":1175,"date":"2025-12-16T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:44:27","slug":"off-to-the-valley-podcast-from-fishing-boats-to-ai-evan-burkoskys-22-year-journey-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/off-to-the-valley-podcast-from-fishing-boats-to-ai-evan-burkoskys-22-year-journey-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Valley Podcast – From Fishing Boats to AI: Evan Burkosky\u2019s 22-Year Journey in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this episode of Off to the Valley, host Prateek Panda speaks with Evan Burkosky, Co-Founder & CRO of Kimaru.ai, about his extraordinary path from growing up on Vancouver Island and working summers on his family\u2019s fishing boat to spending over two decades building businesses in Japan.<\/p>

Evan shares how his early dream of importing Canadian seafood to Japan evolved into a career leading market entries for global SaaS platforms and now revolutionizing supply chain decision-making with AI. He dives deep into:<\/p>

\u2192 The realities of being an entrepreneur in Japan\u2014cultural nuances, relationship-driven sales, and the growing startup ecosystem.<\/p>

\u2192 How Kimaru\u2019s decision intelligence platform augments human judgment instead of replacing it, using AI to speed up and improve supply chain decisions worldwide.<\/p>

\u2192 Why a \u201chuman in the loop\u201d circuit breaker is essential in AI systems.<\/p>

\u2192 Lessons from expanding from Japan into the U.S. market, including how to adapt to \u201cSilicon Valley speed.\u201d<\/p>

His thoughts on mental health for founders and the importance of asking for help.<\/p>

The emerging field of decision intelligence and why it\u2019s a trend to watch over the next five years.<\/p>

Packed with hard-earned insights, this episode is a must-listen for entrepreneurs, AI enthusiasts, and anyone navigating global business.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i6hfg0IiP38 In this episode of Off to the Valley, host Prateek Panda speaks with Evan Burkosky, Co-Founder & CRO of Kimaru.ai, about his extraordinary path from growing up on Vancouver Island and working summers on his family\u2019s fishing boat to spending over two decades building businesses in Japan. Evan shares how his early dream of importing Canadian seafood to Japan evolved into a career leading market entries for global SaaS platforms and now revolutionizing supply chain decision-making with AI. He dives deep into: \u2192 The realities of being an entrepreneur in Japan\u2014cultural nuances, relationship-driven sales, and the growing startup ecosystem. \u2192 How Kimaru\u2019s decision intelligence platform augments human judgment instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decision-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanburkosky.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}