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ソフトバンクグループ創業者・会長兼社長（CEO）。1957年佐賀県鳥栖市生まれ。16歳で単身渡米してカリフォルニア大学バークレー校を卒業後、1981年にソフトバンクを創業。「情報革命で人々を幸せにする」を理念に掲げ、ヤフー・ジャパンの共同設立やボーダフォン日本買収によるiPhone導入など日本の情報通信革命を牽引した。2017年には10兆円規模のソフトバンク・ビジョン・ファンドを設立し、AI・テクノロジー投資を世界規模で加速させている。
Son Masayoshi (born August 11, 1957, in Tosu, Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese entrepreneur and investor, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. At 16 he moved alone to the United States, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and founded SoftBank in Japan in 1981.
Under the vision of “making people happy through the information revolution,” he co-founded Yahoo Japan, introduced the iPhone to Japan by acquiring Vodafone Japan, and in 2017 established the $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund to accelerate AI and technology investment globally. His bold bets have reshaped telecommunications, the internet, and venture capital in Asia and beyond.
“Your life is proportional to the dreams you hold”—Son has returned to this belief throughout his career, tracing it to the audacious move he made at 16 that set his extraordinary life in motion.