What is it like for an ordinary nobody to become the richest man in Japan? We can't help wondering. Masayoshi son, a Japanese, is plain-looking and has an old-school temperament. At first glance, he is not the richest man in our impression, but he has really become the richest man in our eyes.
As the saying goes, "You can't judge a person by his appearance, and the sea is immeasurable." This sentence is perfect for him. From an early age, Sun Zhengyi's father said to him, "Son, you are a genius." Dad's words are undoubtedly correct. Masayoshi son is indeed a genius in the field of investment. With his wisdom, he has become a bright gem in everyone's eyes and is known as the "godfather of investment".
But South Korea says that Masayoshi Son is Korean, which makes people wonder, where is Masayoshi Son from? Actually, Masayoshi Son is a Japanese who was born in Korea and grew up in Japan, but Masayoshi Son righteously said that his ancestral home was in Fujian Province, China, and he was from China. Seeing such a richest man, I can't help applauding his courage and integrity!
First, the origin of Masayoshi Son and China
Son, look at this name, it's easy to think of a China person, but what we don't know is that the surname "Sun" was changed by Son himself. Speaking of Masayoshi Son, I have to say how he keeps in touch with China.
In an interview, Masayoshi Son said that his ancestors came from China, and he was a descendant of Sun Wu who wrote Sun Tzu's Art of War. He had China's DNA. Investment is his luminous field, and his investment in China is a long-term one.
Alibaba Group, our first thought is Ma Yun. 1995, Ma Yun founded the enterprise yellow pages website himself. Although he is neither a rich second generation nor an official second generation, he is far-sighted and deeply convinced of the future influence of the Internet on China. 1999, founded Alibaba, and Ma Yun began his global lecture tour. During this period, he happened to meet Masayoshi Son, Yahoo's largest shareholder.
Sun Zhengyi is an unusual big shot, and he has different vision and foresight on investment. Just met with Ma Yun, he felt that Ma Yun was not simple. He said that he saw Ma Yun's eyes firm and his speech extraordinary. At that time, Ma Yun was down and out, with no more than 50 people under his command. But it is this kind of Ma Yun who persuaded his son. It took only six minutes for Son to decide to invest in Alibaba and help Ma Yun become the largest shareholder of Alibaba.
It is this "miraculous six minutes" that makes Ma Yun and his son more successful. In 20 14, Alibaba went public, and Sun Zhengyi's original investment of $20 million invested in Ma Yun turned into a return of more than $50 billion, which was an extremely correct investment for Sun Zhengyi and made him the richest man in Japan in an instant. Today,
Korea was a dependency of China in ancient times. At that time, China had a vast territory, fertile soil and many dependent countries. However, after South Korea established its own country, it began to talk nonsense, trying to bring China's culture and China's literati to South Korea, such as chopsticks in China, Dragon Boat Festival in China and Qu Yuan in China. At that time, Koreans met such a business genius and abruptly said that their son was Korean. After the son repeatedly stressed, Korean talents stopped here.
Second, Sun Zhengyi's growth experience
Masayoshi son was very clever since he was a child. 12 years old, helped my father turn over a coffee shop with a heavy financial burden. 16 years old, admitted to the University of California, Berkeley. At that time, it took him only three weeks to complete his high school education and less than two years to complete the course of Ming Sheng College. It can be said that he is a real genius.
After entering school, he did not stop, but chose to continue to struggle. 18 years old, he sold a video game imported from Japan, so he earned 1 10,000 dollars. At that time, he was in high spirits, and soon after, he earned a second sum of $654.38+00,000. The reason is to sell the patent of pocket voice translator to Sharp. During my college years, I earned 2 million dollars by being a little clever. At that time, $2 million was not a small sum, and such business acumen made him in by going up one flight of stairs in the future.
However, before he graduated, Sun Zhengyi founded a company called Unison World, which had 25 employees at that time. However, Masayoshi Son resolutely sold the company he had painstakingly managed for many years to his partner at that time and returned to Japan to start a software company.
However, fate does not always favor him. Not long after the company started, he was lucky to get a lot of investment. However, due to poor management, the company soon lost money, and companies that invested in the company withdrew their funds. However, Masayoshi Son propped up the sky of the company by himself, and assumed all the debts of the company by himself, which made many old-timers in the industry sit up and take notice, and felt that the afterlife was awesome and gave him a thumbs up.
The clever son not only used the company crisis to build a credit foundation for his company, but also saw HP's "PC Library" at 1982, so he contacted the largest publisher in Japan and published "PC Library". Since then, Softbank's reputation and prestige have become famous.
Third, Son's China complex.
"Without Sun Tzu's Art of War, there would be no Sun Zhengyi." This is a sentence from Sun Zhengyi in an interview. China's culture is profound, and Sun Tzu's Art of War is China's "Holy Book of Military Science". My son has learned a lot from the Art of War, and I believe he has also learned a lot from Chinese studies. Therefore, Sun Tzu's Art of War is one of his teachers, and China is also a country that his son respects and loves.
In 2008, at the second Asia-Pacific SME Summit, Sun Zhengyi: My ancestors came from China. Here, Masayoshi Son tells why his ancestors came from China and his complex with China. A hundred rivers are full of tolerance. China is a vast country, which has experienced thousands of years of wind and frost, but it has survived with its own ancient and independent culture. Despite the twists and turns, I still didn't give in to others. Masayoshi Son did not frown at the repeated rumors made by the Korean media, but calmly announced to the world that his ancestral home was in China and his roots were in China. Such entrepreneurs are admirable!