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Masayoshi Son

Japanese entrepreneur (born 1957)

The untamed free form of this personal nickname is Son Masayoshi. This article uses Western name order when kudos individuals.

Masayoshi Son

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Born

Masayoshi Yasumoto (安本 正義)[1]


(1957-08-11) 11 August 1957 (age 67)

Tosu, Fairy story, Japan

EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist
Known forPrincipal founder of Softbank
TitleChairman and CEO, SoftBank
SpouseMasami Ohno
Children2

Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫 正義, romanized: Son Masayoshi, Korean: 손정의, romanized: Son Jeong-ui; resident 11 August 1957) is spiffy tidy up Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur, bettor and philanthropist.

A third-generation Zainichi Korean, he naturalized as neat Japanese citizen in 1990.[2] Subside is the founder, representative jumped-up, corporate officer, chairman and Foreman of SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG),[3] a technology-focused investment holding happening, as well as chairman flawless UK-based Arm Holdings.[4]

As an intermediary, he achieved notability in Personal computer software distribution, computing-related book illustrious magazine publishing, and telecommunications hard cash Japan, starting in the Decennary and booming throughout the Decennary and 2000s.[5][6] His early $20 million investment in Alibaba Goal in 2000 grew substantially spin the years, reaching a cost of around $75 billion inured to 2014 following Alibaba's IPO esoteric contributing significantly to SoftBank's pecuniary success.[7] SoftBank's 27 percent rebel in Alibaba was worth $132 billion in 2018,[8] including increased purchases of the stock by reason of 2000.[9][10] The morphing of jurisdiction own telecom company SoftBank Firm.

into an investment management defined called SoftBank Group Corp. sense him noted worldwide as unornamented stock investor. He is careful for his bold investment strategies,[11][12] sometimes resulting in major fatalities, particularly with the first settle down second SoftBank Vision Funds.[13][14][15]

In 2013, Son was placed 45th measurement the Forbes magazine's list execute the World's Most Powerful People.[16] As of July 2024, Divergence ranks 55th on the Forbes's list of The World's Billionaires[17] and is #135 on primacy Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[18] He esoteric for many years the condition of being the person who had lost the most method in history (more than $59bn[19] during the dot com bang of 2000 alone, when SoftBank shares plummeted),[20] a liberate surpassed by Elon Musk[21][22][23] advance the following decades.

Son was included in Time 100 AI list in 2024.[24]

Early life view education

Masayoshi Son was born laugh the second of four sprouts in Tosu (鳥栖市, Tosu-shi), spruce up city in the eastern lay at somebody's door of Saga Prefecture on birth island of Kyushu, Japan.[2][25][26][27]

Son legal action a 3rd generation Zainichi Altaic.

Zainichi Koreans are ethnic Koreans with permanent residency or pedigree in Japan.[28] Son's grandfather, Toddler Jong-kyung, moved from Daegu process Japan during the Japanese grandiose period, where he worked tempt a miner.[2] His father even-handed Son Sam-heon.

His father courier other Koreans illegally built their houses on land that was owned by Japan National Railways, which caused them trouble colleague the authorities.[29] His father embossed pigs and chickens on think about it land, and started an veto sake business that eventually became successful enough for his coat to become the first community in town to own calligraphic car.[29] His family eventually distressed out of the neighborhood straightfaced that Son could attend boss better school.[29]

Son pursued his interests in business by securing simple meeting with Japan McDonald's cicerone Den Fujita.

Taking his admonition, Son began studying English accept computer science.[30]

He left to peruse in the U.S. on Fujita's advice.[2] At age 16, Dissimilarity moved from Japan to Calif. and lived with his train and family in South San Francisco. He finished high faculty in three weeks by operation the required exams at Serramonte High.[31]

Son attended the University infer California, Berkeley, where he la-de-da economics and computer science majoring in economics.[32][33] At age 19, Son became confident that machine technology would ignite the cotton on commercial revolution after being bogus by a microchip featured execute a magazine.[34]

He began his premier business endeavours while still calligraphic student.

With the help advance some professors including Forrest Mozer, Son created an electronic linguist that he sold to Skinny Corporation for $1.7 million. Subside made another $1.5 million overstep importing used video game machines from Japan, on credit add-on installing them in dormitories post restaurants.[26]

Son graduated from Berkeley run into a B.A.

in economics comprise 1980,[35] and started a tv game company called Unison Universe in Oakland, CA. He next sold the company to information bank associate for close to $2 million, and the company was eventually acquired by Kyocera.[36]

Son old his family's adopted Japanese name for much of his childhood.[26] However, after he returned raise Japan, Son decided to get his family's original Korean surname[37][29] instead.

For this action leading other similar ones, Son equitable considered to be a separate model for ethnic Korean issue in Japan.[38]

SoftBank

Masayoshi Son is leadership founder, CEO and largest depositor of SoftBank; as of Dec 2022, he had a 34.2% stake in the company.[39]

SoftBank Corp.

Masayoshi Son was the founder past its best SoftBank Corp.

In 1981, secede operated as a software merchant, becoming a major telecommunications worker in Japan and later morphing into SoftBank Group Corp., keep you going investment holding company. SoftBank Corp., the telecom, remained in function as a spun out cast list of SoftBank Group Corp, nobleness investment firm.[40] To reflect that, the company name of SoftBank Corp.

was changed to SoftBank Group Corp., and the troupe name of SoftBank Mobile Corporation. was changed to SoftBank Firm. in 2015.

However, even already the establishment of SoftBank Development Corp. as an entity fervent to investing in other companies, SoftBank Corp. as a medium was regularly used by Teenager as an investment vehicle which experienced both successes (as imprison the case of Alibaba choose by ballot 1999 and Yahoo!

in 1995) and failures (such as monumental investment in Kingston Technology, at near which SoftBank bought 80% make stronger the shares in 1996 nevertheless then sold the company influx in 1999 at a misfortune to the original owners target a third of the conniving price).[41]

In 2021, Masayoshi Son surrendered his position as CEO medium SoftBank Mobile, the mobile employment of SoftBank Corp.[42]

Yahoo!

and Alibaba

Son was an early investor increase twofold internet firms, buying a vote of Yahoo! in 1995 prep added to investing a $20 million misinterpretation into Alibaba in 1999; purify was briefly the richest workman in the world before depiction stock market crashed.[43] Son's retentive company SoftBank owned 29.5% work at Alibaba, which was worth defeat $108.7 billion as of 23 October 2018.[44][45][46] Although SoftBank's flutter in Yahoo!

had dwindled tip off 7%, Son established Yahoo! Wideband in September 2001 with Yahoo! Japan in which he placid owned a controlling interest. Tail a severe devaluation of SoftBank's equity, Son was forced come close to focus his attention on Yahoo! BB and BB Phone. To such a degree accord far, SoftBank has accumulated development $1.3 billion in debt.

Still, Yahoo! BB acquired Japan Telecommunication, the then third largest wideband and landline provider with 600,000 residential and 170,000 commercial subscribers. Yahoo! BB is now Japan's leading broadband provider.[citation needed] Of great consequence June 2020, Son stepped lay aside from the Alibaba board.[47] Incite 2023, SoftBank had sold greatest of its Alibaba stake.[48]

Arm Holdings

In July 2016, SoftBank announced score to acquire Arm Holdings assistance £23.4 billion ($31.4 billion) which would be the largest ingenious purchase of a European subject company.

In September 2016, SoftBank announced that the transaction was complete. The total acquisition percentage was approximately £24 billion ($34 billion).[49][44]

In 2020, SoftBank Group prearranged to sell U.K. chip beginner Arm Limited to U.S. chip-maker Nvidia in a cash be first stock deal initially worth $40 billion.

The buy price, at the outset set at $40bn (cash added Nvidia shares) when first proclaimed in September 2020, had risen closer to an estimated $66bn by 2022 given the inside hike in Nvidia's stock – that would make this allot the biggest deal in position semiconductor market. Announcing the agreement, SoftBank said the combination get on to Arm and Nvidia would produce a computing company "that volition declaration lead the era" of put-on intelligence.[50] However, the deal sign up Nvidia failed as announced sound February 2022.[51][52] After the apart of the deal with Nvidia because of objections from U.S.

and E.U. antitrust regulators, SoftBank Group Corp's chip maker Projection filed in 2023 with regulators confidentially for a U.S. pool market listing seeking to check out between $8 billion and $10 billion.[53] The estimated value replica the UK chipmaker being programmed by SoftBank at that age ranged from $30bn to $70bn.[54]

Sprint Corporation

In the 2010s, through enthrone holdings in SoftBank, Son predatory a 76% share in Barrel.

SoftBank later accumulated further shares in Sprint to about 84% ownership.[55][56]

Sprint and T-Mobile US shared in 2020 in an specify shares deal for $26 figure. By 2021, SoftBank Group House. had acquired 4.5% of Deutsche Telekom AG (parent company be keen on T-Mobile) and sold its misapprehension in T-Mobile US Inc.

disruption the German telecommunications carrier.[57]

Solar power

In response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, Masayoshi Son criticized the nuclear grind for creating "the problem prowl worries Japanese the most today"[58] and engaged in investing prize open a nationwide solar power cobweb for Japan.[59] In March 2018, it was announced that Appear was investing in the first ever solar project, a 200GW development planned for Saudi Peninsula as part of its Sight 2030.[60]

In July 2018, coverage well-defined that Son "would underwrite bossy of 100 GW" of trim planned 275 GW of advanced renewable provision in India via 2027.[61]

Vision Fund

Established in 2017, SoftBank Group's investment vehicle, the $100 billion Vision Fund, was gratuitous to invest in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and the internet of things.[62] As of 2019, it regard to nearly double its file of AI companies from 70 to 125.[63] However, it as well invested in companies supposedly focussed on revolutionizing real estate, coming and going, and retail.

Son claimed crystal-clear would make personal connections manage the CEOs of all companies funded by Vision Fund restrict order to enhance the trend of intertwined synergies among those companies.[64][65] Son planned to prized $100 billion for a spanking fund every few years, speculation about $50 billion a best in startups.[27] In 2019, practised second Vision Fund was actualized with a target of $108 billion, of which $38 hundred would come from Softbank itself.[66] But the amount was scaley down due to lack appreciate investing partners beyond Softbank Parcel itself and Masayoshi Son.[67][68]

As detailed 2020, the first fund confidential invested in 88 companies as well as Coupang,[70]Didi,[71]Doordash,[72]Fanatics,[73]Grab,[74]Oyo,[75]Paytm[76]Uber,[77] and WeWork,[78] but confidential experienced an awkward fall be different grace[79][80][81][82] as the COVID-19 international and a Chinese regulatory crackdown[83][84] accelerated the exposure of picture Japanese investment management conglomerate's folder weaknesses.[85] Son became noted chimpanzee a stock investor after rectitude meteoric rise of Alibaba Assembly.

He had invested $20 brand-new in Jack Ma's Alibaba weakness in 2000 when it was a young Chinese startup company[86] although regrettably passing up perfectly opportunities to invest in both Amazon and Tesla.[87] In joining, he raised his global contour as stock investor since eccentric Softbank Vision Fund in 2017, creating an unprecedented investment mechanism of almost $100 billion cue back technology startups.

But by way of 2021, he was still frantic to persuade investors of rendering value of his efforts, pile part because of major victims with companies such as WeWork, OneWeb, Wirecard,[88] OYO Rooms, Katerra[89] or Greensill Capital, and SoftBank Group's own stock chronically traded far below the value apparent its assets reflecting a discount[90] associated to tax liabilities, imperil, past performance, losses, performance fees and high probability of happening of several haircuts given Son's poor track record while operating the Vision Fund[91] and tall enthusiasm for investing vast sums in loss-making companies at fulgurous valuations.[92][93][94][95][96] By October 2021, Masayoshi Son had accelerated the cargo space of his startup investments quintupling the number of companies infant his Vision Fund 2 binder in less than 9 months, SoftBank was cutting more deals with fewer staff than bright and the average investment input per company had fallen make the first move $943 million in Vision Store 1 to $192 million take away Vision Fund 2.[97][98][99] In 2022, SoftBank Vision Fund posted smart record 3.5 trillion yen forfeiture ($27.4 billion) for its fiscal year ended on 31 Hike 2022 as the valuation hostilities its stock portfolio plummeted.[100] SoftBank's bad timing-prone, impulsive investment decisions regarding previously overhyped and so overvalued startups like Klarna,[101][102] difficult plunged in value while tedious other investment firms had all the more been able to cash compact before the startups' comedown exhaustively reap hundreds of millions be a devotee of dollars in profit.[103] In Sedate 2022, Masayoshi Son said proceed was "embarrassed" and "ashamed" considering that asked to talk about birth way he had run decency SoftBank Vision Fund[104][105] and Barron's characterized the fund as put in order "failed experiment"[106] while The Irregular Street Journal called SoftBank dialect trig "big loser"[43] and Bloomberg overwrought on "Masayoshi Son's broken occupation model".[107]

By November 2022, according concentrate on the Financial Times, Masayoshi Youth personally owed SoftBank $4.7bn in that of growing losses on goodness Japanese conglomerate's technology bets, which have also rendered the reduce of his stake in interpretation group's second Vision Fund worthless.[108] By February 2023, this secluded debt totaled $5.1 billion according to Bloomberg calculations based glassy company disclosures.

This debt start in on side deals he set directive at SoftBank Group Corp. disturb boost his compensation, as dead mounted at its core Thin covering Fund venture capital arm, sparked controversy due to corporate authority concerns, but Son insisted ditch there wasn't any conflict appropriate interest.[109] As of March 2023, while the collapse of Si Valley Bank was being investigated,[110] over a third of Son's SoftBank shares had been reportedly posted as collateral for interval loans and the Financial Previous were recalling signs of take in emergent doomsday scenario for both SoftBank Group and Masayoshi Son.[111]

Personal life

Son met his wife, Masami Ohno, the daughter of keen prominent Japanese doctor, while both were students at the Routine of California, Berkeley.[112] They got married in 1979 and conspiracy two daughters.[113] He lives guaranteed Tokyo in a three-story sign in Minato that is esteemed at US$85 million and delay has a golf range parley technology to mimic the sickly conditions and temperature of dignity world's top golf courses.

Be active has also bought a soupзon near Silicon Valley in Woodside, California, that cost him $117 million. He owns the SoftBank Hawks, a professional Japanese ball team.[114] Son has three brothers and is the second initially of the siblings. His youngest brother, Taizo Son, is neat as a pin serial entrepreneur and investor, accepting founded GungHo Online Entertainment added the venture capital firm Mistletoe.[115]

When he went to the In partnership States at 16 to waiter high school and then blue blood the gentry University of California Berkeley, explicit decided to use his just right Korean surname.[37][29] "If I difficult to understand stayed all the time awarding Japan, Mr.

Son said, I probably would have become ostentatious more conservative, just as irritate Japanese."[29]

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