Masayoshi Son
11 August 1957 – present
Masayoshi Son is a Japanese business executive who founded SoftBank in 1981 and serves as its chairman and chief executive. Born in Japan to a family of Korean descent, he studied in the United States before building SoftBank from software distribution into telecommunications and technology investment. His investments include Yahoo! Japan, Alibaba, Sprint and Arm, and he launched the SoftBank Vision Fund in 2017.
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Life events
He was born into a family of Korean descent living in Japan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe left Japan as a teenager and continued his schooling in California.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe completed his degree after developing an electronic translator he sold to Sharp.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe company began as a distributor of packaged computer software.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSoftBank established the joint venture with Yahoo! Inc.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSoftBank put about 20 million dollars into the Chinese e-commerce start-up founded by Jack Ma.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe purchase gave SoftBank a nationwide mobile network, later rebranded SoftBank Mobile.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSoftBank took a controlling stake in the United States mobile carrier.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSoftBank bought the British semiconductor design company for about 32 billion dollars.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe technology investment fund raised close to 100 billion dollars, with Saudi and Abu Dhabi sovereign funds among its backers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org