Masayoshi Son

CEO, Softbank

$31.37B

$82.6M (0.3%)

as of 10/03/24

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.

For the year ended March 2024, SoftBank Group reported a $1.7 billion loss, down from $7.3 billion the previous year.

Son is looking to raise $100 billion to fund an AI chip initiative codenamed Izanagi, named after the Japanese god of creation.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Japan

Source of wealth

Telecom, investments

Residence

Tokyo, Japan

Marital status

Married

Birth date

08/11/57 (age 67)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley

Self-made

self-made

Masayoshi Son’s fortune is worth

523K

troy ounces of gold

483K

median U.S. household

314K

median U.S. income

0.627%

U.S. credit card volume

0.125%

GDP of the United States

0.092%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Son got his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

TOKYO | 9984-JP

SoftBank Group Corp.