AOL Web Search

Japan’s second richest person and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son struck a humble tone after the mobile telecom and investment firm announced its first quarterly loss in 14 years on Wednesday.

Son Masayoshi, original name Yasumoto Masayoshi, (born August 31, 1957, Saga prefecture, Kyushu, Japan), Japanese entrepreneur who served as chairman and CEO of Softbank Corp, a media and telecommunications company he founded in 1981. Son was a third-generation Korean with Japanese citizenship. Before traveling to the United States to study in 1973, he repeatedly tried to meet Fujita Den ...

Masayoshi Son founded SOFTBANK Corp. Japan (currently SoftBank Group Corp.) in 1981 and has continued to serve as its chairman & CEO. Founded SOFTBANK Corp. Japan (currently SoftBank Group Corp.), Chairman & CEO. President & CEO, Yahoo Japan Corporation (currently Z Holdings Corporation)

Son returned to Japan after graduating from Berkeley in 1980 and founded SoftBank --the name is short for “bank of software”-- in 1981. It focused on distributing software developed by other ...

# 134 Masayoshi Son $13.5B Random fact: Threatened to set himself on fire if not granted a telecom license. ... Son is the founder and largest shareholder of SoftBank, a Japanese mobile phone and ...

Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫正義, Son Masayoshi, Korean: 손정의; RR: Son Jeong-ui, born 11 August 1957) is a Korean-Japanese billionaire technology businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Japanese holding company SoftBank , CEO of SoftBank Mobile and chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings .

SoftBank's founder and CEO, Masayoshi Son, is the third-richest person in Japan, with a $20.6 billion personal fortune. He owns $45 million worth of real estate in Tokyo as well as a $117.5 ...

Son is one of the world's wealthiest men, with a net worth of more than $20 billion. He founded a Japanese wireless company called SoftBank and invested $20 million in Alibaba in 2000.