Rank #25
Masayoshi Son
Net worth $83.9B
Telecom, Investments · Japan
- Born
- Aug 11, 1957
- Age
- 68
- Source
- Telecom, Investments
- Residence
- Tokyo
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley
Net worth over time
Biography
- Masayoshi Son founded and runs investment giant SoftBank Group, which reported net profit of 3.2 trillion yen ($20.5 billion) on sales of 5.7 trillion yen ($37 billion) for the nine months ended December 31, 2025.
- Investors in Son's Vision Fund 1 include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund.
- The Vision Funds have invested in over 400 companies, including ride-share firm Grab, Korean e-commerce leader Coupang and India's food-delivery platform Swiggy.
- Son is investing billions of dollars in AI, including in the $500 billion Stargate Project, in partnership with OpenAI, Oracle and MGX, to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.
- In November 2025, SoftBank sold its entire stake in chipmaker Nvidia for nearly $6 billion to fund its investment in OpenAI. It plans to invest $30 billion in three tranches between April and October 2026.
- In 2024, SoftBank Group announced a joint venture with Riyadh-based investment firm Alat, for manufacturing industrial robots.
- The name SoftBank was originally intended to mean a software bank or repository and not a real bank.
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