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Masayoshi Son was focused on artificial intelligence back in 2014
“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…”
Alok Sama faced an absurd smear campaign and surveillance at SoftBank
“I mean, I had this absurd smear campaign I had to deal with and maybe that's what you're referring to. That was something that was right out of a movie. You couldn't make that stuff up being under surveillance, et cetera.”
SoftBank and Masayoshi Son possess an investment war chest exceeding $50 billion
“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.”