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Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son
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“The defining account of an era in business history.” —Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition
The unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century’s addiction to instant wealth, from the former editor of the Financial Times.
As vägg Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and fara appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son.
In Gambling Man, the first Western biography of Son, the self-professed unicorn hunter, we go behind the scenes of the world’s most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond
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Masayoshi Son is the $100 billion gambler who went from dirt track to tech titan — and he isn't done betting yet
- SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has spent his life putting bold bets on the future of technology.
- A new book charts the journey of the Japanese businessman from social outcast to the pinnacle of the tech sector.
- 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 entrepreneurs who flocked to Tokyo's Roppongi district.
"Japan is going through its biggest social upheaval since the Meiji Restoration," he said with characteristic grandiosity. "Let's make it so that a millennium from now, people will look back on our time and remember that the kind of society they're living in was created by us today."
SoftBank, the media-technology conglomerate Son founded two decades prior, was riding high on the glory it attained in the dot-com b
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Gambling Man
“The defining account of an era in business history.” —Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition
The unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century’s addiction to instant wealth, from the former editor of the Financial Times.
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son.
In Gambling Man, the first Western biography of Son, the self-professed unicorn hunter, we go behind the scenes of the world’s most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond to see how Son’s firm SoftBank has defied conventional wisdom and imposing odds to push global tech