Masayoshi Son owes much of his success to an incredibly prescient dot-com era bet on Alibaba. The SoftBank chief first invested $20 million in Jack Ma's ecommerce upstart in 2000, when it was just ...
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
On an evening at the turn of the millennium, Masayoshi Son had a rousing ... an early $20 million bet on Jack Ma's Alibaba ...
Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.
Jack Ma, Alibaba founder, today announced his departure from SoftBank board. A visibly sad Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank said Ma and him will remain friends for the rest of their lives.