Softbank Group (softbank) Origin: South Korea (its ancestors migrated to South Korea from China) Date of birth: 1957 Distant ancestor: China Place of birth/nationality: Japan Graduate school: Berkeley University Position : Chairman and President Masayoshi Son is the founder of Software Bank Group and is now the company’s president and chairman. In less than twenty years, he created an unparalleled Internet industry empire. Son’s empire is not an empire under his rule, but a high-tech industrial empire supported and supported by him. He does not enjoy it alone, but contributes his efforts to enable more people to master high-tech information. Wisdom and talent. The American "Business Weekly" magazine called Mr. Son Masayoshi the Emperor of the Electronic Age (Cyber ??Mogul) and praised him above all else. Anyone who knows him well or works with him believes that Mr. Son is worthy of this title. People say that Mr. Son Zhengyi is a strange man. He is a typical oriental man. He is only five feet tall, but he is indeed a talented person. Son has the characteristics of a short great man, and his unique qualities are not owned by others. Masayoshi Son has the American business instinct, the Japanese drive and the Korean root spirit. Masayoshi Son’s greatest ideal is to travel in the electronic space. Mr. Masayoshi Son was born in Japan, and his ancestors are from Korea. He has been very interested in American affairs since he was a child. I especially admire Den Fujita, a local businessman in Japan, who successfully transformed McDonald's into a chain of restaurants loved by young and old. When the Fujita businessman met the young Son, he encouraged him to study in the United States. In 1973, when Mr. Sun was 16 years old, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, to study English. He is very curious and interested in everything in the United States. He feels that everything in America is big and orderly. He believed that America was a country that he should understand and learn from. In 1975, Mr. Sun transferred to a community college and two years later transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, to study economics. While at school, he spent five minutes every day thinking about new inventions. When he was 19 years old, he invented a pocket translator, so he hired a professor to make a prototype of the translator, then applied for a patent, and sold the translator to Sharp Company for one million US dollars. Sharp still uses translator technology in its Wizard personal electronic organizer. When Mr. Sun was still in school, he sketched out the prototypes of 40 companies and designed a 50-year plan to create a company, how to raise capital, and how to pass on inventions and creations. Although Mr. Sun thought so at the time, he still didn’t know which industry he wanted to work in. After Mr. Sun graduated from Berkeley University in 1980, he returned to Japan and continued to revise his business plan. Soon he decided to go into software wholesale. At the age of 23, he founded a software banking company. His company's software sales performance ranks first in Japan. Mr. Sun used his company to publish several magazines aimed at educating customers on software banking products. In 1994, he took his software banking company public, raising $140 million. Since then, SoftBank Group has taken off in great strides. Mr. Masayoshi Son’s experience, philosophy and courage in business operations are extraordinary. In 1995, he focused on the Internet industry and decided to make huge investments in this area. At that time, he selected Yahoo, and his first investment in Yahoo was US$2 million. Soon, he had dinner with Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo, and expressed his intention to invest more than 100 million US dollars in Yahoo in exchange for 33% of Yahoo's shares. After hearing Sun Zhengyi's proposal, Mr. Yang Zhiyuan thought that Mr. Sun Zhengyi was crazy. Even he himself didn't know what the future of Yahoo was, so how dare he give so much money to a new company that was just starting out. However, Masayoshi Son really invested more than 100 million US dollars in Yahoo in March 1996, and later invested a lot of money, up to 355 million US dollars in one year. With the funds, Yahoo became even more powerful and became the world's number one Internet company.
Mr. Masayoshi Son's Software Bank Group is the largest shareholder of Yahoo, and the funds invested have yielded today's gains. The market value of SoftBank Group's shares in Yahoo is US$8.4 billion (July 1999). If Masayoshi Son had not been so courageous and dared to invest, he would not have achieved the fruitful results he has achieved now. Mr. Son’s business style and investment vision are even more unique. Son is straightforward and quick in doing things. Once he makes a decision, he does it immediately. After the Software Banking Group purchased Comdex and Ziff-Davis, it quickly achieved real profits through proper operation. Mr. Cotsakos, the president of eTrade, asked SoftBank Group for an investment of US$400 million. After Masayoshi Son weighed in, he wired US$400 million with just one phone call without any conditions. Later, Mr. Cotsakos' company insisted that Mr. Sun agreed to serve as a director of the company. The return on this investment after one year was $2.4 billion. Sun Zhengyi is unique in managing money and using money. He can really make money and spend it. Son used very little capital to raise more. He used US$3 billion to buy American industries, which was twice his assets, putting him in a position of debt. However, he used the funds calmly and successfully purchased two companies, Comdex and Ziff-Davis. His company was successful, and he himself became the world's richest man, with personal assets reaching US$6.4 billion. The most outstanding thing about Mr. Sun Zhengyi is his thinking philosophy. He can see the future business direction and development prospects from the business in front of him. He sees the future not in ten or twenty years, but in hundreds of years at a glance. Now he is formulating a three-hundred-year business plan. Such vision is truly unparalleled. Son’s three-hundred-year plan will make SoftBank Group’s Internet industry empire stronger and more powerful