Masayoshi Son

“Massa's original thesis still remains intact, which is equal to the time machine, which is the idea of investing in technology models in In emerging markets, technology models that have been successful in the Western world, in the U S and bringing them to emer…”

“Like a South Bank without Masa is like a church without Jesus, I think is what I say, which is very appropriate.”

“It was a case of Ritesh being someone who reminded Masa when Masa himself was young, right? And I want to back you with capital. I want you to achieve what you're what you're capable to realize your potential, to realize for the, for your company to realize it…”

“If he started making all these investment decisions based on advice, like people like me, I don't think he would have done the Alibaba deal”

“Kind of the idea of desirable suffering, I don't buy into that at all. Yeah. You hear stories about people like Sansan who crashed and burned, picked themselves up. You don't hear stories about people who just crashed and burned, right? There's nothing desirab…”

“One of the keys to understanding him, I think is he's not really Japanese. He's Korean. And For those among among your audience in India may not be familiar with this. It's being Korean in Japan is the equivalent of what hopefully I'd like to think things are …”

“He made the comment after the setbacks of 2021. His exact words were, I am ashamed of myself for being elated by the successes of the past, right?”

“I think that whole, you know, visionary, that expression is thrown around a little bit too loosely, but Sonsan is the real deal, I should say, because I mean, take AI, for example. It's all hype right now. Everyone's talking about it. He was talking about it i…”

“I think he has a war chest trap, you know, kind of with leverage capacity and with cash on hand is certainly north of fifty billion.”

“And he joined SoftBank as the anointed successor to Masayoshi's son and was, felt he needed someone with my background and”

“And, you know, Masa negotiates a little bit and says, I'll put in 200. And that was it.”

“The effort required for doing something decently big to doing something magnanimously big is not that different.”