The ‘Crazy Guy’ Who Bet Billions on the iPhone—3 Years Before It Existed
Masa first encountered Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s at the annual Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of 1998, they had their first serious conversation under a cherry tree at the ...
What Drives Billionaire Masayoshi Son?
The man behind SoftBank has now teamed up with OpenAI to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure over the ...
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The $17B gamble made on the basis of a handshake with Steve Jobs
a new piece telling the story of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son making a $17B gamble on the basis of a gentleman’s agreement with Steve Jobs. Invariably known as Masa, the Japanese entrepreneur ...
The Japanese Tech Titan Who Came to Kiss Trump’s Ring
Trump trotted out Masa’s line about 50,000 new jobs and $50 billion of investment in the U.S. Masa beamed into the TV cameras ...
Meet Masayoshi Son, the billionaire SoftBank founder helping fund the Stargate AI joint venture
Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Are AI’s New Power Couple
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
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8 Lessons from the Career of Softbank’s Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese media technology conglomerate, is often cast as a ...
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‘GET READY TO ROCK’: Trump meets with SoftBank CEO to announce $100 billion investment, creation of 100,000 jobs
President-elect Donald Trump will join SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his Florida home on Monday to announce that the Japanese company is planning to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects ...