Masayoshi Son

CEO, Softbank
$61.42B
$3.4B (5.9%)
as of 12/05/25

About Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son founded and runs investment giant SoftBank Group.

Investors in Son's Vision Fund 1 include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund.

The Vision Funds have invested in over 400 companies, including ride-share firm Grab, Korean e-commerce leader Coupang and India's food-delivery platform Swiggy.

Son is investing billions of dollars in AI, including in the $500 billion Stargate Project, in partnership with OpenAI, Oracle and MGX, to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Japan

Source of wealth

Telecom, Investments

Residence

Tokyo, Japan

Marital status

Married

Birth date

08/11/57 (age 68)

Number of children

2

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley

Self-made

self-made

Masayoshi Son’s fortune is worth

1M

troy ounces of gold

945K

median U.S. household

614K

median U.S. income

1.228%

U.S. credit card volume

0.246%

GDP of the United States

0.181%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Son spent more than $100 million on a 9-acre estate in Silicon Valley with a 9,000 square foot mansion.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

TOKYO | 9984-JP

SoftBank Group Corp.

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