YAGOO

Motoaki Tanigo (born December 10, 1973), known professionally as YAGOO is a Japanese CEO of COVER Corporation.

Career
Graduated from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio University. Afterwards did game development for Sanrio Co. He was the CEO and helped develop the local news service 30min. Inc. which he sold to start a company focused on AR and VR technology in 2016 He went on to found Cover Corporation in June 2016 which was first aimed at developing new content that utilizes AR/VR technology before working in the Virtual YouTuber business.

YAGOO
His nickname among the talents and many fans. The name YAGOO originated from one of Roboco's streams, where Subaru read "Tanigo" as "Yagoo".

2020

 * Sep. 27 Achieved a 10,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.

2021

 * Jan. 10 Achieved a 100,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Nov. 27 Achieved a 200,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.

2022

 * Aug. 30 Achieved a 600,000 Twitter follower milestone.

Trivia

 * Likes to watch TV and YouTube before going to bed, and sometimes falls asleep on the sofa.
 * Is one of Hololive Production staff members with a verified Twitter account. Other verified members can be found here.
 * YAGOO is also known to use the phrase "so desu ne" very often such as during Kiryu Coco's interview of him.

Recommended Videos

 * HoloLive：TechCrunch Tokyo 2017 スタートアップバトル
 * ヘ ル シ ェ イ ク Y A G O O (Hellshake YAGOO)
 * 【VS.YAGOO】Marineglish Interview Time【hololive/宝鐘マリン】
 * 【インタビュー動画】カバー谷郷元昭（たにごうもとあき）代表取締役社長CEO（本編版）