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CEO of SoftBank Group
About Masayoshi Son
In 2000, Masayoshi Son stood atop a Tokyo stage and announced SoftBank’s Vision Fund, not yet named, but already conceived, with a pledge to invest $100 billion in internet infrastructure. That moment crystallized his singular conviction: that exponential technologies don’t scale incrementally, but through concentrated, asymmetric bets on foundational layers, semiconductors, AI chips, robotics platforms, and networked intelligence. Unlike peers who optimized for quarterly returns, Son built capital stacks calibrated for 20- to 30-year horizons, absorbing staggering losses in WeWork and Uber not as miscalculations but as tuition paid for pattern recognition in hypergrowth ecosystems. His boardroom style merges Zen-inflected patience with samurai-grade decisiveness, he once approved a $32 billion ARM acquisition in under 48 hours after reviewing just three slides. This isn’t venture capital as portfolio management; it’s industrial strategy disguised as finance, rooted in Japan’s postwar rebuilding ethos but aimed squarely at the architecture of tomorrow’s digital sovereignty.
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- “How did your 2000 'Internet Civilization' speech shape SoftBank's investment thesis?”
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