MASAYOSHI SON is a man of contrasting superlatives. At the height of the dotcom bubble in early 2000 the Japanese technology mogul was briefly the world’s richest person, before losing $77bn in ...

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has been a champion of AI for years. The Japanese conglomerate has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies. Son joined OpenAI and Oracle to ...

Silicon Valley's biggest funds before then were ... Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Masayoshi Son' by Lionel Barber is published by Allen Lane on October 3 in the UK, and Atria/One Signal ...

Who is Masayoshi Son? Son founded SoftBank in the 1980s ... pouring billions into Silicon Valley start-ups and other technology companies. Son comes from a humble background.

The man behind SoftBank has now teamed up with OpenAI to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure over the next four years.

Among the visitors in mid-December was Masayoshi Son, the Japanese founder ... Fund was to disrupt the venture capital industry in Silicon Valley, but it ended up massively inflating valuations.

BI spoke with Lionel Barber, the author who got up close to Silicon Valley's ultimate disruptor. On an evening at the turn of the millennium, Masayoshi Son had a rousing message for the ...