Korean-Japanese technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist

Masayoshi Son is a Korean-Japanese technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist.

Softbank's founder

And as Paananen also points out, Softbank's founder Masayoshi Son is a man whose business vision scales beyond the usual 5-year-plan to 300 years.

SoftBank’s chairman,

In the end, SoftBank’s chairman, Masayoshi Son, simply did not want to give up control of Sprint to Deutsche Telekom, especially considering Sprint’s vast wireless spectrum holdings suitable for future 5G wireless services.

SoftBank CEO and Sprint chairman

SoftBank CEO and Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son has become something of a maverick.

chief executive

Uber's board has been wary of the SoftBank proposal because of investments by investments's founder and chief executive, Masayoshi Son, in the ride-hailing company's rivals in Asia.

Japan's richest man

Masayoshi Son is Japan's richest man and is the founder of the venture capital Vision Fund which tries to outdo all other venture capitalists by buying tech companies that can go global and disrupt all the other companies.

chairman of Japanese tech titan SoftBank Group

The roughly 3,500 attendees include Masayoshi Son, chairman of Japanese tech titan SoftBank Group, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.