He was rejected over 30 times, including a travel guide job. Very few people might have faced these many rejections as even ...

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Masayoshi Son is back, bigger than ever now: Alok Sama, former Softbank CFO Alok Sama on how the Japanese billionaire is seeking back the spotlight with his big bets on AI, why his investment ...

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Son is an object of suspicion still in corporate Japan—and envy, because he is the richest man in Japan alongside Uniqlo’s Tadashi Yanai, who was on the board of SoftBank for nearly 20 years.

Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the biggest backer of the ChatGPT-maker.

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 ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks next to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son at White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (REUTERS) ...

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump's big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but also sketchy investment record.

What chance is there that Masayoshi Son and Trump will meet the new 100,000 jobs and $100 billion investment in the U.S. economy? On the positive side, the sums being invested in AI are mind-boggling.

Meanwhile, Alibaba has said it "supported" 403,000 US jobs in 2022, five years after Mr Ma made his promise. Mr Son's relationship with Trump also dates back to his first election.