TOKYO -- Some people always have stars in their eyes. Take Takafumi Horie, poster boy for Japan's cocky yet savvy high-tech entrepreneurs of the early 2000s who rose to riches on the back of the internet boom.
Since then, Horie's life has been a roller coaster, a journey that has swept him from startups and boardrooms to campaign trails and prison cells. Now, the colorful 45-year-old entrepreneur stands on the frontier of outer space as founder of space startup Interstellar Technologies.
