Masayoshi Son

“SoftBank then ended up owning, as you'll recall a third of Yahoo at the IPO.”

“He offered to buy Brightstar with only one condition, and that condition was that I would become the CEO of Sprint.”

“Arm is owned by SoftBank. So, Masayoshi-san, who's, I think, in the top 50 most wealthy people in the world, in the year 2000, he was the wealthiest man in the world, I think, for, he likes the joke, for about 20 nanoseconds when the SoftBank stock was higher …”

“He was insisting, he said, said to me, I've been wanting to buy that, that business for 18 years. This time I'm gonna buy it.”

“He was the richest man in the world for eighties, 80 plus days.”

“He levered everything and bought You know, soft bank, mobile business from Vodafone, and turn that billion dollar investment into forty billion dollars.”

“Massa in Saudi, one of the things he talked about is he did his calculations, and the numbers for me make a lot of sense that basically you need to spend, you know, trillions, single digit trillions, and then you're gonna get nine trillion of annual value comi…”

“So to me, this is like a relatively low octane masa move.”

“So, but it very easily could see him back in the news with an incremental twenty billion. He could lever this. He could take twenty-five billion against the arm position easily.”

“I actually agree with him fundamentally that AI is going to affect five percent of GDP. Probably where I disagree with Massa, so I think he used the nine trillion dollars. I think that's the number he used. It's going to Disrupt nine trillion of GDP. And then …”

“Massa had negotiated a deal to put in, I think, forty billion into OpenAI, but it had to close by December 30th of this year.”

“He's the only double-digit shareholder.”

“Yeah, well, they led the round of a billion, yeah. And he was like, whatever the price of freight is, you'd just be 10% cheaper than everybody, and then if someone matches you, you'd just be 10% cheaper than that, which is like a terrible strategy. I did not d…”