Son’s unique blend of financial engineering, power of optimism, daring to dream

Masayoshi Son, as an ethnic Korean in Japan, Son has overcome adversity, born in Korean poverty and forced to pass as Japanese, driven by the need for acceptance in a famously regimented society despite discrimination to become Japan’s best-known businessman and empire-builder, but he remains elusive, intensely private figure. He had chips on his shoulders put chips in pockets. In Gambling Man, we learn what drives Son on, and whether he really is a genius or a madman. Son merely wants to show off his Japanese garden, although there are no rosebud moment, but he enigmatic as ever. SoftBank founder … Continue reading Son’s unique blend of financial engineering, power of optimism, daring to dream