Masayoshi Son
1957 – ? Japanese investor, SoftBank founder
SoftBank founder and one of tech's boldest investors.
- Religion
- Not publicly documented.
- Affiliations
- Founder and CEO of SoftBank; created the giant Vision Fund; a huge early investor in Alibaba and a backer of Arm and many startups.
Masayoshi Son, of Korean descent, faced discrimination growing up in Japan and reclaimed his Korean family name Son. He founded SoftBank and made a legendary early bet on Alibaba. He later raised the enormous Vision Fund to invest across global tech.