The most important ingredient of a globally successful game is, obviously, a great game.

But after the long gruelling journey of building a great game, what developers often find is another mountain of work ahead — the marketing, distribution, localization, monetization, compliance, etc — i.e. the "business stuff" needed to be done to take their game to the world and make money.

Will Bohn is the founder of Wortal, which is a suite of platforms and tools that help developers avoid exactly the above headache.

In this conversation, he helps us understand what they really do and how they do it. Then, as customary in recent episodes, we talk about building a business in Japan and the challenges / opportunities we've found here.

Eduardo is the founder and CEO of Xpress AI, a platform to build any kind of AI agent you could want.

But in 2025, at the peak of AI hype, what is exactly an "AI agent"?

We discuss the whole landscape, starting from the highest level down to the weeds, and make it an highly educational, information-packed episode.

We also talk about the honest lessons in building a bootstrapped tech company in Japan, which Xpress AI happens to be.

Japan's banking landscape is infamously opaque and unwelcoming towards foreigners.

My guest Raul decided to do something about it... and then one day, out of nowhere, sh!t hit the fan — the partner bank pulled out of the deal, leaving chaos behind.

Listen in as we discuss the whole story, a one of a kind experience, and also talk about how Raul plans to move forward.