Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Sonis a Japanese businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile, and current chairman of Sprint Corporation. According to Forbes magazine, Son's estimated net worth is US $17 billion and he is the second-richest man in Japan, despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history. Forbes also describes him as a philanthropist...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 August 1957
CountryJapan
I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.
We believe there is enormous potential for entrepreneurial Internet ventures in key European markets.
We aim to start mobile phone service by end of 2007.
With the hefty amount of moving pictures we have prepared, we aim to grab 40 million viewers.
Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.
Because Softbank revised its strategy to focus on companies that operate totally on the Internet platform, we are evaluating a number of our investments. In the case of Ziff-Davis, we support the decision of its Board to explore all options for maximizing shareholder value.
We hope to expand our online news service on a global basis in the future.
We believe that the success achieved in assisting U.S.-based Internet companies to enter Japan can be duplicated for the U.K. and other countries.
We believe that online investing is going to be one of the highest growth business segments of the next decade.
They don't change that much. And that means their growth or adaptation to the new generation is getting somewhat lagged behind the new trend.
Japan has the infrastructure for this kind of service, so it would be a shame not to use it.
Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave the operation up to Jack. We trust his skills.
Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.