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Square Enix President Profiled in WSJ

Back in, I think, senior year of college, our university paper added the “College Journal” smack in the middle — a pullout section featuring articles that were, in staunch opposition to the school paper’s general policies, well-written. But of course they were, because they were from the Wall Street Journal. One such piece that college […]

Back in, I think, senior year of college, our university paper added the "College Journal" smack in the middle -- a pullout section featuring articles that were, in staunch opposition to the school paper's general policies, well-written. But of course they were, because they were from the Wall Street Journal.

One such piece that college kids are reading over their Cocoa Puffs this morning is a profile of Square Enix president Yoichi Wada, specifically, the fact that he didn't go to any fancy-pants business school or anything:

Mr. Wada spent three years peddling stocks and bonds door to door in Hiroshima, learning about front-line sales under a quota system that demanded salesmen double their rivals' results. In his free time, he taught himself accounting and macroeconomics.

I picture him like Lincoln, sitting in a log cabin scribbling debits and credits in chalk on the back of a shovel by firelight.