Yusaku Maezawa, founder of massive Japanese online clothing retailer Zozotown, is a rich guy. Rich enough to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX a serious amount of money to become a passenger on a trip to the moon, and also rich enough to rack up the most retweets in history by promising to give away almost a million dollars.
Styled in the fashion of a Japanese new year’s greeting card, which often contain gifts of money, Maezawa’s January 5th tweet says he’ll personally pay one million yen (about $9,200) to 100 people that follow and retweet him. The deadline is the 7th; Maezawa says he’ll contact the winners via direct message.
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