On an evening at the turn of the millennium, Masayoshi Son had a rousing message for the entrepreneurs who flocked to Tokyo's Roppongi district. "Japan is going through its biggest social upheaval ...

The clue is in the title: “Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son”. Exhibit one is Son’s investment track record, which is decidedly up and down. On the positive side of the ...

OpenAI just closed a record funding round. The deal is also a new piece in the grand AI plan being pieced together by Masayoshi Son. The billionaire founder of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank added ...

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 ...

Masayoshi Son is the bold Japanese entrepreneur who founded SoftBank Group in 1981, but he and SoftBank are far better known for their ambitious bets on other companies. Son’s most famous invest ...

Masayoshi Son is one of the most celebrated investors in modern history. As CEO of Japanese holding company SoftBank, Son has a rich history of architecting savvy investments across a host of ...

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A few rare people are accelerators too. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is one of them. I haven’t known Masa for long, but I’ve observed three facets that allow him to act as an accelerator ...