Masayoshi Son is an internationally renowned investor. Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978. He founded the Software Banking Group in 1981. On November 11, 2022, Son decided to retire from the Software Banking Group and focus on ARM.
Masayoshi Son (そんまさよし), born in Japan on August 11, 1957, is an internationally renowned investor. In 1973, when Son was 16 years old, he skipped a grade and entered the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in economics. In 1975, 18-year-old Son Masayoshi made money by selling a video game imported from Japan on campus. In 1976, while in school, Son used the resources of the famous American Jet Propulsion Laboratory to sell the patent of the pocket-sounding translator to Sharp, making his second pot of gold.
In 1978, Masayoshi Son graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Founded Software Banking Group in 1981. On November 11, 2022, Masayoshi Son announced his withdrawal from the company’s daily operations at SoftBank’s latest financial quarter meeting. Son decided to retire and focus on ARM.
Masayoshi Son’s main achievements
Since its listing in 1994, Software Bank has owned 300 companies in Japan, important joint ventures or sole proprietorships in the United States and Europe, and related businesses. , venture capital and strategic alliances and other assets, ranking among the top ten major companies in Japan. Since September 8, 2014, as SoftBank's stock price has soared by 16%, Son became the richest man in Japan on September 16, 2014, surpassing Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Group, the parent company of Uniqlo, in one fell swoop.
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet era has been rising like a new star, and Son Zhengyi began to invest wildly everywhere. In order to find the most promising new technologies and online business models in the future, when Son invested money in Alibaba, Alibaba was still a small e-commerce company in China.