Augusto Marietti is the co-founder and CEO of Mashape, an API management platform. He grew up in Italy and Milan, studied there but dropped out to found Mashape with no money or connections in the US. He has since raised over $10M from investors like Bezos, Index and CRV. Mashape has offices in SF, Toronto and London and grew its headcount by 2x in 8 months. It offers four main products: Kong API gateway, Gelato developer portal, Galileo API analytics, and an API marketplace. Marietti is in Japan for the first time to enjoy sushi and Kobe beef and discuss how Kong supports the OpenAPI Specification.