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Who We Are

Kobayashi Industries is a Seattle-based software company dedicated to making life a little more fun for everyone.

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Why "Kobayashi Industries?"

Kobayashi Industries was one of Japan's leading fishing and industrial supply conglomerates. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, the company maintained a virtual monopoly on waterproof welding materials that gave it tremendous sway with the nation's industry and government.

During the 1986-1991 Japanese economic bubble, the massive influx of capital into the Japanese economy bolstered Kobayashi Industries's financial position. The company's management orchestrated a series of what were later considered to be extremely unwise mergers and acquisitions, diversifying the conglomerate's holdings into software and electronics fields which were well outside management's sphere of competence.

During Japan's Lost Decade, Kobayashi Industries's complex web of subsidiaries began to unwind. Management struggled to curtail fraud and incompetence within its acquired divisions, and the company found itself deeply in debt. Finally, in 2005, Kobayashi Industries declared bankruptcy and began liquidating its assets.

Due to the company's chaotic accounting practices, the liquidation process took several years and was finally completed in 2009. After all its debts had been repaid, the company's only remaining asset was a small software development firm in Seattle, WA, USA. This tiny firm is the last, best hope for Kobayashi Industries's exhausted shareholders.

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The name was written on the bottom of a coffee cup.

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We are full of hot dogs.