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Aug 6, 2024 · Terry Gou, CEO of Foxconn Technology group, Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank Corp, and Jack Ma, CEO of the Alibaba Group, at a news conference in 2015 | Getty Images | Photo by Koki Nagahama.
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- By Seth Fiegerman
- The $100 Billion Gatekeeper
- The Rise, Fall and Rise of Mr. Internet
- A Bridge Too Far
- Number One Strategy
Not far from the storied venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, there’s a palatial estate where Masayoshi Son, Silicon Valley’s newest kingmaker, shapes the future. Reaching him requires driving into a leafy enclave filled with mansions overlooking Palo Alto before passing through a gated entrance into a sprawling compound where waiting attendant...
That’s how it is when you’re the visionary leader of SoftBank, one of the world’s most influential and aggressive technology firms. Under Son’s guidance, the Japanese conglomerate, which he founded in 1981, has repeatedly shaken up entire industries with blockbuster acquisitions of companies like Sprint and prescient investments in startups like Al...
Son has always had a penchant for making deals. As a student studying economics at UC-Berkeley forty years ago, he convinced Forrest Mozer, a professor who had invented a talking calculator for the blind, to join him in building a pocket translator. “It surprised me,” Mozer told CNN recently. “Here’s this young, little kid coming into my office wit...
Yet some in Silicon Valley worry SoftBank’s massive investments could create a venture funding arms race and allow unprofitable startups to keep chugging along with questionable business models. And several investors told CNNMoney that SoftBank is driving up valuations for everybody. Scott Sandell, managing partner at New Enterprise Associates, sai...
Son laid out his plan for crossing that bridge during the shareholder meeting in June. He called it his “cluster of number one strategy” -- investing in unicorns that are, or could be, “the number one players in the market.” Near the top of that list is WeWork, an eight-year-old startup that provides trendy coworking spaces in 80 cities worldwide. ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Masayoshi Son is Representative Director, Corporate Officer, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. He founded SOFTBANK Corp. Japan (currently SoftBank Group Corp.) in 1981 and has continued to serve as its chairman & CEO.
- August 11, 1957
Sep 8, 2020 · Masayoshi Son is the billionaire founder and CEO of Japanese holding company SoftBank, which has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies, including WeWork, Uber,...
- Henry Blodget
Spouse. Masami Ohno. Children. 2. Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫 正義, romanized: Son Masayoshi, Korean: 손정의, romanized: Son Jeong-ui; born 11 August 1957) is a Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. A third-generation Zainichi Korean, he naturalized as a Japanese citizen in 1990. [2]
Sep 21, 2024 · Late one afternoon in October 2023, as the sun slipped down over Tokyo Bay, Masayoshi Son was sitting in his private office at SoftBank headquarters, at the head of a wooden table almost as long...
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Jun 4, 2019 · Meet Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of SoftBank and one of the richest men in Japan, who has a $16.3 billion fortune and owns a $117.5 million Silicon Valley estate
