Masayoshi Son
Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley
Japan
Softbank
internet, telecom, Self Made
$25,200,000,000
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#2 Japan's 50 Richest 2019
#43 Billionaires 2019
Masayoshi Son founded and runs SoftBank, a mobile telecom and investment firm with $81 billion in 2017 revenue. Softbank invested $35 billion across 100 deals in 2017, including making investments in office rental firm WeWork and ride hailing company Uber.In December 2016 at Trump Tower, Son promised that SoftBank would lead $50 billion in investments in U.S. companies and create 50,000 jobs.Investors in Son's Vision Fund include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund.SoftBank acquired struggling U.S. mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel for $22 billion in 2013.
Son spent more than $100 million on a 9-acre estate in Silicon Valley in 2012 with a 9,000 square foot home. Son got his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.
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