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Masayoshi Son

Founder & CEO, SoftBank · 0 appearances on the record.

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Masayoshi Son is the founder and CEO of SoftBank. He is known for launching the SoftBank Vision Fund and leading large-scale venture capital investments.

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Everything Masayoshi Son said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Masayoshi Son: SoftBank lost six trillion yen over two consecutive quarters
“So previous quarter, and this time quarter, consecutively, we made three trillion yen level of the loss. So in total, six trillion yen was made in the past six months.”
Masayoshi Son Aug 13, 2022 ▶ 5:22 E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI

The other half of the tape: Masayoshi Son's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 97 times in 27 episodes on All-In. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 45David Friedberg 24David Sacks 8Thomas Laffont 7Chamath Palihapitiya 6Brad Gerstner 4Travis Kalanick 1Rene Haas 1

Statements about Masayoshi Son, by other people (3)

Opinion
Sacks: Masayoshi Son is a gambler whose big win covers his mistakes
“Look, I mean, he's a gambler, and he is playing a power loss, so he only needs one really big return to basically make up for all the mistakes, and it seems like he's hit that.”
David Sacks Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 8:36 E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
Insight
Masa Son: Investors should scale fast-growing winners rather than fix mistakes
“Nikesh, you're spending too much time with the mistake. He said, if you go spend that time with a company that's growing it three times, they can grow it six times. We'll make our money up six times in that company instead of you trying to fix that from half b…”
Nikesh Arora Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 10:57 Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024
Opinion
Arora: Masayoshi Son's risk appetite grew larger as he aged
“Masa is one of those people whose risk appetite grew as he grew older.”
Nikesh Arora Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 7:02 Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024

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2022 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2021 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Masayoshi Son was played rather than Masayoshi taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided b Aug 13, 2022 1m clip played
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