Featured Conversations & Commentary Archive
Featured Conversations & Special Interviews
Why Do We Need to Redefine the Enterprise in the Age of AI?
As AI makes knowledge, analysis, prediction, and optimization widely accessible, efficiency alone can no longer create meaningful differentiation. This video explains why companies need to reconsider their Purpose, Business, Organization, Capital, and Leadership—and redefine the value they exist to create.
What Will Humans Do When AI Can Do the Work?
As AI assumes a greater role in analysis and execution, people will remain responsible for defining objectives, asking questions, creating meaning, and making final decisions. This video explores how companies can redefine the relationship between humans and AI while drawing on distinctly human capabilities such as creativity, empathy, ethical judgment, and accountability.
Three Forces That Can Redefine an Enterprise
— Business × Technology × Capital
Corporate transformation requires the alignment of business, which defines customer value; technology, which makes that value possible; and capital, which supports its growth. This video explains VURA’s approach to reconnecting these often-separated forces and turning strategic ideas into businesses and enterprise value.
Investing in the Future —
Longevity, Planetary Sustainability, Quality of Life, and Frontier
VURA views Future Value through four domains: Longevity, Planetary Sustainability, Quality of Life, and Frontier. This video introduces an investment philosophy focused on participating in multiple futures that matter to humanity through capital investment and active management, rather than trying to predict a single winning future.
Why I Founded VURA
Experience across corporate management, technology, consulting, and the leadership of a private equity portfolio company revealed the limits of strategy without direct execution. In this video, Naoki Kadowaki explains why he founded VURA to invest in companies, participate in their management, and redefine them from within—and shares his ambition to increase the number of companies capable of creating Future Value continuously.
Redefining Enterprises with People Who Share the Same Vision of the Future
Corporate transformation cannot be achieved by one executive or one area of expertise alone. This video presents VURA’s approach to co-creation and management engagement, bringing together investors, owners, boards, executives, employees, and technology leaders around a shared vision of the future.
AI as the Raw Material of a New Era
— What Can Japan Create for the World?
As AI becomes a common “raw material” available around the world, competitive advantage will depend on how effectively it is transformed into products, services, and industrial value. This video considers how Japan can combine AI with its technology, manufacturing capabilities, operational knowledge, commitment to quality, and trust to create value for global markets.
