Kenji Mura

Kenji Mura is a technology and business journalist who has spent a decade covering the companies that shape how people work, spend, and occasionally panic — a beat he chose deliberately and has since come to understand more personally than intended. Based in Tokyo and previously in San Francisco for long enough to develop opinions about both, Kenji writes about startups, platform economics, and the recurring human instinct to describe software as a revolution. He approaches each story with the enthusiasm of someone who still believes it matters and the skepticism of someone who has been to too many product launches. His work has been translated into six languages, paywalled in three, and summarized without credit in at least one newsletter that he reads anyway. At The Pressive, Kenji covers the business of media itself — who funds it, who shapes it, and who benefits from the confusion between the two. He is the youngest member of the editorial team, a fact that is mentioned more often than he would like and less often than his editor seems to think. His book, The Polite Disruption, was published last year to genuine excitement, a brief appearance on a list that matters, and a paperback edition that came out six months later with a subtitle nobody agreed on. He is told a second printing is likely. He has been told this for some time.