Name: SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together | FT Film
Uploaded: 2021-05-27T06:33:53.000Z
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A really difficult question to answer these days.

It is the corporate expression of one man.

A journey for people to ride alongside the mind of Masayoshi

Right at the centre of it you've got Masayoshi Son.

He's like no other chief executive in Japan.

He's not afraid to make extremely aggressive bets.

If we were in a casino, he'd be the guy doubling down

If he's on the blackjack table, just double down, double down,

and he just let it ride as far as he can go.

He's exploring ways to become rich, exploring ways

He identified technology as the way to do that.

SoftBank one of the world's biggest companies.

So it's not like SoftBank creates products.

and he says, well, I was going to give you $500m,

If you don't have a good answer for the $500m,

who don't value his company as highly as he

He's small, like, physically small, and he's calm.

What lies beneath is this vigorous shark.

Masayoshi Son is born and raised in Japan.

He came back to Japan using the money from a patent

that he sold of an electronic translator.

He set up SoftBank in 1981 as a software distributor.

just a year after the Chinese company was created.

To turn $20m into $100bn and more, that doesn't happen.

You know, even the best venture capitalists

in the world who put a sliver of money in Airbnb

or a sliver of money in Google, they never

of what happens if we all went back in time

the thing that keeps the market confident that it's still worth

something is that he's still clutching onto that Alibaba

Even through the pandemic we've seen Alibaba only get stronger

Did he just get lucky on Chinese e-commerce?

Is he the world's most astute tech investor

He listened to Jack Ma's speech for five minutes

He probably has the biggest guts in the world

Very few people in the world have that courage.

was that all these times that it was in the money,

It's one thing to find Alibaba, which is already impressive.

But it's another to have the conviction to stick with it.

made a pretty ill-advised speech in Shanghai

and it seemed to take a swipe at regulators.

The next thing we know the share price of Alibaba's

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