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Leading OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round shows the tech investor's knack for seizing big opportunities.
On an evening at the turn of the millennium, Masayoshi Son had a rousing message for the entrepreneurs who flocked to Tokyo's ...
Alok Sama on how the Japanese billionaire is seeking back the spotlight with his big bets on AI, why his investment thesis on India is still relevant, and more ...
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, the chairman and CEO of the Softbank Group, in 2009 acquired SAM Cayman Inc. in the Cayman Islands. The company is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Son Assets Management LLC, which Son ...
On Wednesday, SoftBank Group SFTBF SFTBY announced that it has acquired Ampere Computing in a $6.5 billion deal, with the transaction expected to close in the second half of 2025. What Happened ...
After composing for FF14 Dawntrail and FF16 at the same time, Masayoshi Soken says he wouldn’t repeat the feat for Final Fantasy 17.
Masayoshi Soken says "I would just say no" if Square Enix asked him to work on Final Fantasy 17 and 14 at the same time ...
I was very impressed by her courage to share her own experience with us and her actual leadership on the ground. In one 2012 incident, six men beat and raped a 23-year-old woman on a bus, then ...
Nicholas, Tom, Ramana Nanda, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund." Harvard Business School Case 819-041, October 2018. (Revised February 2018.) ...
While some of the featured leaders were ones you’d expect—cabinet nominees, congressional leaders, megadonor Elon Musk—at least one was a surprise: Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire ...