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 ...

When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque ...

Jack Ma, Alibaba founder, today announced his departure from SoftBank board. A visibly sad Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank said Ma and him will remain friends for the rest of their lives. Son ...

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming U.S. President Donald Trump's big new AI push ... We are the same animal," Son said of Alibaba's founder Jack Ma. Ma replied: "He probably has the biggest ...

On an evening at the turn of the millennium, Masayoshi Son had a rousing ... from an early $20 million bet on Jack Ma's ...

Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the ...

As the founder and CEO of Softbank, a Japanese investment holding firm, Masayoshi Son is known for making big bets. He was an early investor in Jack Ma’s Alibaba and was also an early investor ...

The following is adapted from Gambling Man, my new biography of Masayoshi Son ... after a six-minute speed-dating session with Jack Ma; how he personally supersized hundreds of Silicon Valley ...

Last year, SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son had stated plans of raising a new $100 billion fund every two to three years, and invest around $50 billion each year. Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar ...

OpenAI‘s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son during a news conference earlier this month at the White House. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by ...