Type Public KK Industry Internet Headquarters Tokyo, Japan | Traded as TYO: 3632 Website GREE English Website Founder Yoshikazu Tanaka | |
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Key people Yoshikazu Tanaka (田中良和), (Founder and CEO) Services Advertising and Ad network
Licensing and Merchandising
Platform business
Social media
Social gaming
Venture capital CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka (7 Dec 2004–) Stock price 3632 (TYO) JP¥ 702 +7.00 (+1.01%)9 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer Founded 7 December 2004, Tokyo, Japan Subsidiaries SEKAIE, Inc., Glossom, Inc., GREE International Entertainment, Inc., MARS, ltd., GREE Entertainment Products, Inc Profiles | ||
GREE, Inc. (グリー株式会社, Gurī Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese Internet media company with headquarters in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo. It has been operating the social network service GREE since its establishment in December 2004.
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Origin of the name GREE
The company name GREE comes from a hypothesis, Six Degrees of Separation postulated by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1967. "Six degrees of separation" is a hypothesis that everyone is approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. If a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements are made, on average, any two people in the world can be connected in six steps or fewer. The name symbolizes GREE’s hope to "create and provide any new possibilities of the Internet" and to "create new forms of fun, convenience, and excitement."