Masayoshi Son
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Telecom, Investments
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Tokyo
- Organization
- CEO at Softbank
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- SoftBank Group Corp.1,759,396,000 shares @ --9984-JP
Biography
Masayoshi Son founded and runs investment giant SoftBank Group, which reported net profit of 3.2 trillion yen ($20.5 billion) on sales of 5.7 trillion yen ($37 billion) for the nine months ended December 31, 2025.
Investors in Son's Vision Fund 1 include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund.
The Vision Funds have invested in over 400 companies, including ride-share firm Grab, Korean e-commerce leader Coupang and India's food-delivery platform Swiggy.
Son is investing billions of dollars in AI, including in the $500 billion Stargate Project, in partnership with OpenAI, Oracle and MGX, to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.
In November 2025, SoftBank sold its entire stake in chipmaker Nvidia for nearly $6 billion to fund its investment in OpenAI. It plans to invest $30 billion in three tranches between April and October 2026.
About
In 2024, SoftBank Group announced a joint venture with Riyadh-based investment firm Alat, for manufacturing industrial robots.
The name SoftBank was originally intended to mean a software bank or repository and not a real bank.