Early Life
Horie was born in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and was raised in an unexceptional household by a salaryman father and mother from a farming family.
He was a student at the department of literature at the University of Tokyo and was going to major in religion, but dropped out after establishing a website development company called Livin' on the Edge in 1995 with friends and classmates.
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