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Anew Financial Times profileof Masayoshi Son open up with SoftBank ’s CEO seeming to hit bottom , stare at his “ surly ” fount on Zoom and telling himself , “ I have done nothing I can be lofty of . ”
Indeed , Son largely disappeared from the public eye after SoftBank ’s Vision Fundtook huge lossesfrom investments like WeWork . But FT writer Lionel Barber , whose new biography of Son is called “ Gambling Man , ” writes that while Son appeared to be “ doing penance , ” he was really “ plot a return . ”
Now SoftBank isbetting enceinte on AI , and determine success bytaking chip conception company Arm world .
There are also some fun personal details in the profile , like Son ’s apparent enthrallment with Napoleon . When an activistic investor brought up Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg in a 2020 meeting with Son , he reportedly dismissed them as “ one - stage business cat . ”
“ The right comparing for me is Napoleon , Genghis Khan or Emperor Qin , ” Son said . “ I am not a CEO . I am building an empire . ”
A former version of this article misspell Masayoshi Son ’s name . We rue the erroneous belief .
