It’s not clear that his all-in AI bets will pay off. But they’re invigorating Japan’s beleaguered tech sector.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son recently shared a few laughs and some bittersweet memories at the AI ...

The Nvidia CEO and cofounder revealed the missed opportunity during a conversation with SoftBank CEO and founder Masayoshi ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the very beginning of Gambling Man, his biography of Masayoshi “Masa” Son, the founder of Japanese ...

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 ...

45-minute conversation, by offering him “a Masa gift, a trillion-dollar gift,” according to Son’s 2017 interview with Bloomberg’s David Rubinstein.

IN 2019, Elliott Management, an activist investment fund which had built up a 3 per cent stake in Softbank, demanded a meeting with the company’s founder and CEO, Masayoshi Son. Elliott complained ...

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 ...

At the height of the dotcom bubble in early 2000 ... His is a story of our times. Masayoshi Son is a quintessential outsider.

Beginning in 2017, the investment story between Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and SoftBank started when Masayoshi Son, the creator of the growing chipmaker, committed a whopping $4 billion. At the time ...

Masayoshi Son is man of extremes. His $20 million bet on Alibaba Group Holding became the most successful of all time when it swelled to more than $70 billion after a decade. He also lost $70 ...