SoftBank posted a quarterly profit of about $1.5 billion, driven by its big bet on the chip designer Arm Holdings.

Masayoshi Son's bold bets on tech defined an era. A new book asks if the SoftBank boss is a visionary or a gambler.

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese multinational investment company SoftBank Group, is one of the richest ...

Masayoshi Son is the bold Japanese entrepreneur who ... which sank billions into WeWork before the co-working startup filed for bankruptcy in 2023. Then there was Nvidia. In 2019, SoftBank sold ...

‘Gambling Man’ author Lionel Barber explains how Masayoshi Son went from losing money on WeWork to betting big on AI. Masayoshi Son is back on top. On January 22, President Donald Trump ...

Masayoshi Son is the CEO and founder of tech and telecommunications ... Softbank was the biggest investor in WeWork, losing more than $4.7 billion after the coworking company's failed IPO.

Not far from the storied venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, there’s a palatial estate where Masayoshi Son ... critics have called WeWork overvalued, but not Son.

The result is likely to raise more questions about how founder Masayoshi Son aims to fund one of the ... While some of those have paid off, others, like WeWork, have flamed out.

From visionary bets in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm, to disastrous gambles on WeWork and Vision Funds, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has defied both logic and expectations. Self-styled as a modern Ghengis Khan, ...