Wealth Creator #38 Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son
Real Time Net Worth
$14.5 Billion
$491.2 M | 3.5%
As of 2/24/2015 @ 9:10PM *
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CEO, Softbank
Age 57
Source Of Wealth internet, telecom, Self Made
Residence Tokyo, Japan
Citizenship Japan
Marital Status Married
Children 2
Education Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of California Berkeley Masayoshi Son on Forbes Lists
#38 Powerful People
#45 in 2013
#1 Japan's 50 Richest
#42 Billionaires
#1 in Japan
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Masayoshi Son's $20 million investment 14 years ago in Jack Ma and his young Alibaba is legendary, although it is just one of close to 1,300 investments made by Softbank, the Internet and telecom giant he founded decades ago. Now Son is publicly on the search for the next Ma and entrepreneurial "heroes" who create jobs in India, where he's pledged to invest $10 billion in e-commerce in the next 10 [...] more
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