Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Sonis a Japanese businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile, and current chairman of Sprint Corporation. According to Forbes magazine, Son's estimated net worth is US $17 billion and he is the second-richest man in Japan, despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history. Forbes also describes him as a philanthropist...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 August 1957
CountryJapan
I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.
Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave the operation up to Jack. We trust his skills.
A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.
In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.
They don't change that much. And that means their growth or adaptation to the new generation is getting somewhat lagged behind the new trend.
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
We hope to expand our online news service on a global basis in the future.
We believe that online investing is going to be one of the highest growth business segments of the next decade.
We believe that the success achieved in assisting U.S.-based Internet companies to enter Japan can be duplicated for the U.K. and other countries.