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Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son, Japanese-Korean. Born in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, Japan, he is the founder and president of SoftBank Group, chairman of SoftBank Co., Ltd., and the boss of Fukuoka SoftBank Eagle. According to "Forbes" magazine, he had a net worth of US$8.1 billion in 2011, ranking second among Japan's richest people. Son ranked 43rd on Forbes' 2019 billionaire list, with assets reaching US$21.6 billion. Son once surpassed Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world's richest man in one day when Yahoo's valuation was at its highest during the Internet bubble in the 1990s. He relied on SoftBank's several holdings and investment returns in the Alibaba Group founded by shareholder Jack Ma. For a long time, Yanai Masaru and Uniqlo ranked among the top two richest people in Japan. On December 16, 2024, it announced a leveraged investment of US$100 billion in the US AI field to help Trump improve US AI public construction, and later increased it to US$500 billion.
- Category
- Entrepreneurs
- Nationality
- Japan
- Born
- 1957-08-11
- Wikidata
- Q717038
