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"Son" is mentioned twice in the article with no reference to who that is. Masayoshi Son is the man standing on the left in the photo. According to Wikipedia [

• Cyph0n 9y ago
  I knew about SoftBank but not its founder. He seems like the Japanese version of Buffett... I also somehow assumed that SoftBank was an older company.
  • baxtr 9y ago
    Interesting indeed. I wouldn’t say he’s like Buffet though. I think he’s more like Richard Branson.
  • rak111esh 9y ago
    He was the richest man on earth pre-dotcom bubble for 3 days. http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/how-softbanks-masayoshi-son-bounced-back-after-losing-70-billion/890545/ http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/how-softbanks-masay...
    • saagarjha 9y ago
      The Wikipedia page has this interesting piece of trivia about him: [H]e is the richest man in Japan, despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).
      • adventured 9y ago
        By a large margin over Masayoshi Son, the richest in Japan title now goes to Tadashi Yanai of Fast Retailing: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/tadashi-yanai/ https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/tadashi-yana... After that is Takemitsu Takizaki, of Keyence: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/takemitsu-takizaki/ https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/takemitsu-ta...
  • yelnatz 9y ago
    "Masayoshi Son’s $100 Billion Bet to Conquer the Future" Bloomberg did a piece on him last year on the Decrypted podcast. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2017-05-30/masayoshi-son-s-100-billion-bet-to-conquer-the-future https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2017-05-30/masayoshi-so...
  • happosai 9y ago
    Buffet buys companies with pricing power while Son does massive bets with debt. His major skill seems ability to convince banks to borrow him billions for increasingly larger leveraged buyouts.
    • bitumen 9y ago
      Didn’t SoftBank just throw a ton of money at Uber?