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Masayoshi Son made $72 billion betting on Jack Ma's Alibaba. Now he wants to do it again with AI.
Masayoshi Son owes much of his success to an incredibly prescient dot-com era bet on Alibaba. The SoftBank chief first invested $20 million in Jack Ma's ecommerce upstart in 2000, when it was just ...
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Are AI’s New Power Couple
In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, ...
The Japanese Tech Titan Who Came to Kiss Trump’s Ring
Trump trotted out Masa’s line about 50,000 new jobs and $50 billion of investment in the U.S. Masa beamed into the TV cameras ...
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Masa Son, Trump's Japanese Buddy With The Midas Touch
Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald ... We are the same animal," Son said of Alibaba's founder Jack Ma. Ma replied: "He probably has the biggest guts in the world on doing ...
The ‘Crazy Guy’ Who Bet Billions on the iPhone—3 Years Before It Existed
Masa first encountered Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s at the annual Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of ...
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Masa Son, Trump's Japanese buddy with the Midas Touch
Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President ... We are the same animal," Son said of Alibaba's founder Jack Ma. Ma replied: "He probably has the biggest guts in the world on doing ...
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Masa Son, Trump's Japanese buddy with the Midas Touch
Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump's big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but also sketchy investment record. Trump's "friend ...