File:Masayoshi_Son_(P066533-522034,_cropped).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Born
- Masayoshi Yasumoto , ( 1957-08-11 ) 11 August 1957 (age 68) , Tosu, Saga , Japan
- Other name
- Son Jeong-ui
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley ( BA )
- Occupations
- Entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist
- Known for
- Founder of Softbank Group
- Title
- Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Chairman of Arm Holdings Chairman of Stargate LLC
- Spouse
- Masami Ohno ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 )
- Kanji
- 孫 正義
- Romanization
- Son Masayoshi
- Hangul
- 손정의
- Rr
- Son Jeongui
- Mr
- Son Chŏngŭi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sun
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Tosu
- Sibling
- Taizō Son
- Occupation
- engineer
- Position held
- chairperson
- Award
- Time 100
- Image
- Masayoshi Son (P066533-522034, cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Tokyo
Show 8 more facts
- name in native language
- 孫 正義
- date of birth
- 1957-08-11
- name in kana
- そん まさよし
- Commons category
- Masayoshi Son
- net worth
- 21600000000
- owner of
- Inter Miami CF
- social media followers
- 2983554
- affiliation string
- Softbank Group
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫 正義; born Masayoshi Yasumoto, August 11, 1957) is a Japanese entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. A Zainichi Korean, he is the founder, chairman and chief executive of SoftBank Group (SBG), a technology-focused investment holding company, as well as chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings and US-based Stargate LLC.
As an entrepreneur, he achieved notability in software distribution, computing-related book and magazine publishing, and telecommunications in Japan, starting in the 1980s and booming throughout the 1990s and 2000s. His early $20 million investment in Alibaba Group in 2000 grew substantially over the years, reaching a valuation of around $75 billion by 2014 following Alibaba's IPO, and contributing significantly to SoftBank's financial success. SoftBank's 27 percent stake in Alibaba was worth $132 billion in 2018, including additional purchases of the stock since 2000. The morphing of his own telecom company SoftBank Corp. into an investment management firm called SoftBank Group Corp. made him noted worldwide as a stock investor. He is known for his bold investment strategies, sometimes resulting in major losses, particularly with the first and second SoftBank Vision Funds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Masayoshi Son” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.